When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.