"Pure friendship's well-feigned blush."

“Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because youâ€™re a man it doesnâ€™t mean that it doesnâ€™t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and donâ€™t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic â€“ this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!”
“I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.”
“What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.”
“Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.”
“I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.”
“What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.”
“When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.
“What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.”

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