World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

The practice of ethics is not about following rules but about developing inner purity and freedom.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

To what shall I compare this life? It is like a boat that left at dawn, leaving no trace.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

When you realize the emptiness of all phenomena, compassion will arise in your heart for all sentient beings who do not understand this truth.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

When we rest in awareness, we discover a peace that is always present, regardless of circumstances.

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

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

Compassion is a verb.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

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

Craving and aversion are the roots of suffering. Observe them with equanimity.

It is never too late to turn on the light.

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dependent origination is not a theory about the origin of the world but a teaching that shows how suffering originates in dependence on our own mental processes.

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

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.