When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.