To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?