Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

What you think you become.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.