Paradukkhūpadhānena, attano sukhamicchati verasaṃsaggasaṃsaṭṭho, verā so na parimuccati. Listen Entangled by the bonds of hate, one who seeks one's own happiness by inflicting pain on others, is never delivered from hatred. Dhammapada 21.291 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Mattāsukhapariccāgā passe ce vipulaṃ sukhaṃ, caje mattāsukhaṃ dhīro, sampassaṃ vipulaṃ sukhaṃ. Listen If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise one renounce the lesser, having regard for the greater. Dhammapada 21.290 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Yogā ve jāyatī bhūri, ayogā bhūrisaṅkhayo. Etaṃ dvedhāpathaṃ ñatvā bhavāya vibhavāya ca, tathāttānaṃ niveseyya yathā bhūri pavaḍḍhati. Listen Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of progress and decline, let one so conduct oneself that one's wisdom may increase. Dhammapada 20.282 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita https://store.pariyatti.org/Dhammapada-The-BP203ME-Pocket-Version_p_2513.html Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Appaṃ vata jīvitaṃ idaṃ! Oraṃ vassasatāpi miyyati, yo cepi aticca jīvati, atha kho so jarasāpi miyyati. Listen How short this life! You die this side of a century, but even if you live past, you die of old age. Sutta Nipāta 4.810 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Translated from Pāli by Thanissaro Bhikkhu Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Dosaggiṃ pana mettāya, nibbāpenti naruttamā. Mohaggiṃ pana paññāya yāyaṃ nibbedhagāminī. Listen By love they will quench the fire of hate, by wisdom the fire of delusion. Those supreme ones extinguish delusion with wisdom that breaks through to truth. Itivuttaka 3.93 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Sabbadā sīlasampanno, paññavā susamāhito; ajjhattacintī satimā, oghaṃ tarati duttaraṃ. Listen In every virtue all-accomplished, with wisdom full and mind composed, looking within and ever mindful-- thus one crosses the raging flood. Sutta Nipāta 1.176 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Paṇḍito sīlasampanno jalaṃ aggīva bhāsati; bhoge saṃharamānassa bhamarasseva irīyato. Listen One who is virtuous and wise shines forth like a blazing fire; like a bee collecting nectar one acquires wealth by harming none. Dīgha Nikāya 3.265 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Sabbhireva samāsetha, sabbhi kubbetha santhavaṃ. Sataṃ saddhammamaññāya paññā labbhati nāññato. Listen Consort only with the good, come together with the good. To learn the teaching of the good gives wisdom like nothing else can. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.31 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Kodhaṃ chetvā sukhaṃ seti. Kodhaṃ chetvā na socati. Kodhassa visamūlassa, madhuraggassa devate vadhaṃ ariyā pasaṃsanti, tañhi chetvā na socatī. Listen Having killed anger you sleep in ease. Having killed anger you do not grieve. The noble ones praise the slaying of anger -- with its honeyed crest & poison root -- for having killed it you do not grieve. Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.71 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Translated from Pāli by Thanissaro Bhikkhu Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Sududdasaṃ sunipuṇaṃ, yatthakāmanipātinaṃ; cittaṃ rakkhetha medhāvī, cittaṃ guttaṃ sukhāvahaṃ. Listen Difficult to detect and very subtle, the mind seizes whatever it wants; so let a wise one guard one's mind, for a guarded mind brings happiness. Dhammapada 3.36 View Pāli on Tipitaka.org Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika Book Details Pariyatti is a non-profit organization supported by purchases and contributions. http://store.pariyatti.org/donate.html -- Our monthly e-newsletter includes specials from time to time. You can subscribe at: www.pariyatti.org/ResourcesProjects/News/tabid/125/Default.aspx