For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out

Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

Remember that the only constant in life is change.

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

True love is born from understanding.

Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.