He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

What is most needed is a loving heart.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.