Every good fortune,
Wives, friends, houses, lands,
All these gifts and riches ...

They are a dream,
A juggling act,
A traveling show!

A few days, and they are gone.

(c) Ashtavakra Gita

At a time when people are so conscious of maintaining their physical health by controlling their diets, exercising and so forth, it makes sense to try to cultivate the corresponding positive mental attitudes too.

(c) His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1963

Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who would conquer
just one--
himself.

(c) Dhammapada

I believe that he is the true warrior who does not die killing but who has mastered the mantra of living by dying.

(c) Mohandas Gandhi

There's no fire like passion,
no seizure like anger,
no snare like delusion,
no river like craving.

(c) Dhammapada

Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

(c) Sutta Nipata

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

(c) Ramakrishna

No kak zhe veliko inogda iskushenie sdelat naoborot...

While aid may outwardly seem as puny as a mustard seed,
The knowing will deem it as imposing as a towering palm.

Help rendered another cannot be measured by the extent
Of assistance imparted. Its real measure is the recipient's worthiness.

(c) Tirukkural

What you do may seem insignificant, but it's important that you do it.

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

Who wrote this play in which we have to laugh, cry, and exit according to the script? No god can write it, nor can Buddha. Only your own mind can write it.

(c) Jae Woong, "Polishing the Diamond"