Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

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

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

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

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

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

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

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

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.

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

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.