If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?