1. “You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.”
2. “If you do not grasp at anything in the present you will go about at peace.”
3. “Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.”
4. “Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.”
5. “I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.”
6. “Some do not understand that we must die, but those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”
7. “Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.”
8. “Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”
9. “If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.”
10. “Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
11. “Give, even if you only have a little.”
12. “It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”
13. “Meditate…do not delay, lest you later regret it.”
14. “A disciplined mind brings happiness.”
15. “Rouse yourself! Sit up! Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.”
16. “Looking after oneself, one looks after others. Looking after others, one looks after oneself.”
17. “As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.”
18. “Just as with her own life, a mother shields from hurt her own son, her only child, let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.”
19. “We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by kindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.”
20. “Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.”
21. “Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.”
22. “The wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.”
23. “There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.”
24. “Not as higher, lower, nor equal do they refer to themselves. With birth ended, the holy life fulfilled, they go about, totally freed from fetters.”
25. “Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this Dhamma and Discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.”