There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The enlightened one, intent on jhana, should find delight in the forest, should practice jhana at the foot of a tree, attaining his own satisfaction.

“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.”

I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment for states of becoming.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.

“Happiness is not having a lot. Happiness is giving a lot.”

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.

Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.

True love is born from understanding. 

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

“You only lose what you cling to.”

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”