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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. (Dhammapada)
Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart, should one cherish all living beings.(Karaniya Metta Sutta)
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal. (Dhammapada)
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. (Dhammapada)
In four ways … should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend’s evil deeds, he disapproves his friend’s good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence. (Sigalovada Sutta)
The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven. (Sigalovada Sutta)
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune,from sorrow freed,from defilements cleansed,from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing. (Mangala Sutta)
Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean,
nor by entering into mountain clefts,
nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds. (Dhammapada)
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good. (Dhammapada)
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.(Sutta Nipata)
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. (Sutta Nipata)
There are these two kinds of gifts:a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma. (Itivuttaka)
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing. (Mangala Sutta)
When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended — one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis — the thought doesn’t occur to him that ‘There is someone better than me,’ or ‘There is someone equal to me,’ or ‘There is someone worse than me.’ (Khema Sutta)
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him — like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.(Itivuttaka)
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