"Death will find you anyway, why are you so busy running?"
Death
"Health is the ultimate wealth."
Health
"Solitude brings growth, and society brings changes."
Solitude
"Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another."
Wisdom
"Let the wise ones control their senses like a good driver controls the reins of horses."
Wisdom
"Just as the sun shines on all living things without prejudice, so does wisdom."
Wisdom
"Do not accept my words on faith, believing them just because I am your teacher."
Knowledge
"Who can make muddy water clear? By leaving it alone."
Peace
"The greatest thing is to give light and people will find the way."
Inspiration
"Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy."
Happiness
"Do not overestimate the value of the goal. The goal is only the direction."
Wisdom
"A jug fills drop by drop."
Perseverance
"Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean."
Wisdom
"Don't stay in the past, don't stay in the future, stay in the present."
Time
"As I am, so are others; as others are, so am I. Identifying myself with others, I will neither kill nor cause to kill."
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Work
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance."
Wisdom
"Cling to nothing. When you cling to nothing, you lack nothing."
Freedom
"Wisdom is not found in books alone."
Wisdom
"The conquest of self is greater than victory over a million enemies."
Strength
"True love is boundless."
Love
"Great things are not accomplished by impulse, but by those who commit themselves to the idea."
"To the wise, what is the use of the night? What is the use of sleep to the virtuous?"
"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path yourself."
"Like the moon reflected in the water, beauty exists in the void between reality and the soul."
Beauty
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."
Strength
"Pain is certain, suffering is optional."
Wisdom
"What you resist persists. What you befriend, you transcend."
"Happiness is an inside job."
Happiness
"All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill."