You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?