The path to liberation requires both understanding and practice, both pariyatti and patipatti.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer evil with good. Conquer stinginess with giving. Conquer deceit with truth.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

The superior person is like water, bringing benefit to all without competing.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

Genuine happiness comes from having developed basic human qualities, such as attention, emotional balance, and generosity.

The secret of happiness lies not in getting what we want, but in learning to want what we already have.

The only things that are truly mine are my actions and their results.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Love is the wish that others be happy, and compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that life contains suffering. The second noble truth is that the cause of suffering is craving.

Insight knowledge comes from direct experience, not from intellectual understanding.

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

The Four Noble Truths are not merely theoretical propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our experience.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.

The practice of meditation is not about achieving states of bliss but about seeing things as they really are.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

The ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

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

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

Enlightenment is the realization that we were never really separate from one another or from all of life.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

To live is enough.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

The most important thing in life is to know death is coming and to prepare for it.

Don't try to push away the darkness. Just light a lamp. The darkness will disappear by itself.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.