Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.