"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."

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Source : Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.196, Harmony

Nhat Hanh

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“I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.”
“The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.”
“The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.”
“If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.”
“Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.”
“I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.”

Source : "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.
“Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.”
“So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing”

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