Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

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

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The root of suffering is attachment.