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.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

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

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Panic, anxiety, and stress are not obstacles to the practice. They are the path to wisdom and compassion.

The entire path is a path of self-responsibility. Nobody else can walk it for you.

Sensations are not your enemy. They are your teacher. Through observing them, you understand the truth of existence.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

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.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

The development of insight is gradual, but the realization of truth is sudden.

The cultivation of loving-kindness has the power to transform enmity into amity, hostility into hospitality.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

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

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.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

May all beings be happy, be peaceful, be liberated.

The mind is the forerunner of all things. Our present life is the result of our past thoughts, and our future life will be the result of our present thoughts.

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

It is never too late to turn on the light.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

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

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

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.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.