Health is the first benefit. Content is the fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust

May all that have life be delivered from suffering

If you're respectful by habit,
constantly honoring the worthy,
four things increase:
long life, beauty,
happiness, strength.