The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.

‎You only lose that which you cling to.

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.