Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

And more importantly - what we have chosen to do