Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
(Dhammapada)
(Dhammapada)
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
(Mangala Sutta)
(Mangala Sutta)
I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.
(Vinaya)
(Vinaya)
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
(Mangala Sutta)
(Mangala Sutta)
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
(Dhammapada, verse 122)
(Dhammapada, verse 122)
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
(Dhammapada, verse 118)
(Dhammapada, verse 118)
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
(Majjhima Nikaya, verse 19)
(Majjhima Nikaya, verse 19)
Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace.
(Dhammapada, verse 100)
(Dhammapada, verse 100)
Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.
(Dhammapada, verse 5)
(Dhammapada, verse 5)