If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

It is better to travel well then arrive.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.