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Famous Quotes By The Dhammapada
 Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. 
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.”
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but has no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
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