If you retaliate against hatred with hatred, your adversary will harbor new hatred against you.

The outline of a struggle leaves forever the kindling of strife.

Forgive the offences of your adversary, and if you meet your adversary with a heart of tolerance and good intentions, his hatred will fade away.

Everyone has been born to walk and carryout his own way. If you live every day with the attitude of doing the work you have been given to the fullest, your live will naturally follow suit. If you lose your feeling of thankfulness for having been given life and think that merely living is life, and that living merrily is an even better life, in the end you will have a life that lower than the animals.

Dengyo Daishi teaches about the importance of facing your own goal and advancing steadily toward it.