Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?