Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

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?

The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path undeclared before. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the one skilled in the path. And his disciplines now dwell following that path and become possessed of it afterwards.

All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.