Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.