Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
Gautama BuddhaThe number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.
Gautama BuddhaHatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
Gautama BuddhaThe mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.
Gautama Buddha