"Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Buddhist Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.”
“Leopardstar says that they're staying with us so the Clans can exchange training methods and fighting techniques, but I don't see much sign of it. All they do is watch....It's like they're learning all about us, all our secrets and weaknesses. That's why I came over here, to get away from them for a bit.”
“Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.”
“There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.”
“Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.”
“A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.”
“Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.”
“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”

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