Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.