The offering of wisdom is better than any material offering for the goal of all work is spiritual wisdom.
-Bhagavad Gita
Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, "Today I am happy because this morning I was very angry." On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, "Today I am not happy because I lost my temper this morning." Through kindness, whether at our own level or at the national and international level, through mutual understanding and through mutual respect, we will get peace, we will get happiness, and we will get genuine satisfaction.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly;
take a staff in your hand.
If you have no staff of insight,
do not walk without a guide.
-Rumi
He is still.
Without pleasure or pain,
Distraction or concentration,
Learning or ignorance.
His nature is free of conditions.
Win or lose,
It makes no difference to him.
Alone in the forest of out in the world,
A god in heaven or a simple beggar,
It makes no difference!
-Ashtavakra Gita
Hearing the above, another questioner, Jatukkani, asked: "Like the sun which controls the world with its heat and light, you, Master, seem to control desire and pleasure. I have only a little understanding. How can I find and know the way to give up this world of birth and aging?"
The Buddha answered: "Lose your greed for pleasure. See how letting go of the world brings deep tranquility. There is nothing you need hold on to and nothing you need push away. Live in the present but do not cling to it and then you can go from place to place in peace. There is a state of greed that enters and dominates the individual. But when that greed has gone, it is like poison leaving a body and death will have no more terror for you."
-Sutta Nipata