You must discern the result in the cause, and discern the cause in the result.

- Ta-sui

Due to having faith one relies on the practices, Due to having wisdom one truly knows. Of these two wisdom is the chief, Faith is the prerequisite.

- Nagarjuna, "Precious Garland 5"

As rain seeps into an ill-thatched hut, so passion, the undeveloped mind. As rain doesn't seep into a well-thatched hut, so passion does not, the well-developed mind.

- Dhammapada, 1, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

When you are deluded, you are used by your body. When you are enlightened, you use your body.

- Bunan

Patient endurance: the foremost austerity. Unbinding: the foremost, so say the Awakened. He who injures another is no contemplative. He who mistreats another, no monk.

- Dhammapada, 14, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now?

- Master Hsing Yun, "The Indescribable"