The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear