Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

From a withered tree, a flower blooms

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.