If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?

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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

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Whatever living beings there may be — feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born — may all beings have happy minds.

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Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

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One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield. Be victorious over yourself and not over others.

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With mindfulness, strive on.

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Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

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One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.

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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

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In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

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