What others call happiness, that the Noble Ones declare to be suffering. What others call suffering, that the Noble Ones have found to be happiness. See how difficult it is to understand the Dhamma! Herein those without insight have completely gone astray.
- Sutta Nipata

I am breathing in and making my whole body calm and at peace. I am breathing out and making my whole body calm and at peace. This is how one practices.
- The Sutra on Full Awareness of Breathing

By charity, goodness, restraint, and self-control men and woman alike can store up a well-hidden treasure — a treasure which cannot be given to others and which robbers cannot steal. A wise person should do good — that is the treasure which will not leave one.
- Khuddhaka Patha

Regard him as one who points out treasure, the wise one who seeing your faults rebukes you. Stay with this sort of sage. For the one who stays with a sage of this sort, things get better, not worse.
- Dhammapada

For one who is in the habit of constantly honouring and respecting the elders, four blessings increase age, beauty, bliss, and strength.
- Dhammapada

With such perfect and saintly patience as all that, you may certainly go and live among these violent people. Go, Purna—who knows, you may be able to deliver some and show them the way to freedom.
- Majjhima Nikaya

If knowledgeable people praise him, having observed him day after day to be blameless in conduct, intelligent, endowed with discernment & virtue: like an ingot of gold– who’s fit to find fault with him? Even devas praise him. Even by Brahmas he’s praised.
- Dhammapada

Even as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, So lust breaks through an ill-trained mind. Even as rain breaks not through a well-thatched house, So lust breaks not through a well-trained mind.
- Dhammapada

Ajita asked: “What is it that smothers the world and makes it so hard to see? What is it that pollutes the world and seems to threaten it?” The Buddha answered: “It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness and greed that make it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear.”
- Sutta Nipata

Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft. Carpenters shape the wood. The wise control themselves.
- Dhammapada