One should do nothing other than what is directly or indirectly of benefit to living beings.
ShantidevaIf you can solve your problem, what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, what is the use of worrying.
ShantidevaHe who doesn't get rid of the I won't be able to avoid suffering the same way that someone who doesn't get apart from fire can't avoid being burn.
ShantidevaDeath will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'
Shantideva