Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control other things?

As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world.

All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.

It is natural for the immature to harm others. Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.

Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.

May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.

May the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away. May I be the doctor and the medicine and may I be the nurse for all sick beings in the world until everyone is healed.

We are all slaves of our own actions. Why be angry with anyone else?

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

hndoera kindyour life is a ticking of a clock when that clock stops ur life stops

Don't follow your heart if you can't keep a beat

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!

Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.

I can't count how many goalposts I've hit!

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.