Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

"I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death."

"Greater than all the joys Of heaven and earth,Greater still than dominion Over all the worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream."

"You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you?You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines Without impurity or desire You will come into the boundless country. Your life is falling away. Death is at hand. Where will you rest on the way?What have you taken with you?You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines purely You will not be born And you will not die."

"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt?What harm can you do?"

"Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention"

"Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form and who calls nothing his own.[Verse 221] TR- Friedrich Max Müller"

"He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man."

"Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder, you're seen!You will not build a house again. All your rafters broken,the ridge pole destroyed,gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving."

"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the"

"Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace."

"Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young,they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond."

"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.]"