Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.