Share your favourite Dhammapada verse and your thoughts!
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Yes
Just paste the verse you love most, and if possibly tell us why you like the verse most and how it has impacted you... But I haven't got time to post mine... others can start first 
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To those who have no idea what the Dhammapada is, it is "A collection of 423 verses containing the Buddha's essential teachings on some 305 occasions for the benefit of a wide range of human beings."
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Here are some of my favourites I can think of right now.
Mindfulness is the way to the Immortal, unmindfulness the way to death. Those who are mindful do not die, (whereas) the unmindful are like the dead.
Mindful among the unmindful, wide awake among the sleeping, the man of good understanding forges ahead like a swift horse outdistancing a feeble hack.
~ Appamadavagga - Mindfulness (verses 21-32) -
15. The doting man with mind set on children and herds, death seizes and carries away, as a great flood (sweeps away) a slumbering village. 287.
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Hatreds do not cease through hatreds
Anywhere at anytime.
Through love alone do they cease:
This is an eternal law.
The Dhammapada, Verse 5, Chapter 1 (The Twin Verses)