Don't give yourself to negligence. Don't devote yourself to sensual pleasure. Vigilant and absorbed in meditation, one attains abundant happiness.

Don't make your career be your life. Let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is insearch of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.