"The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides."

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Nhat Hanh

#Suffering Quotes #Trying Quotes #Facts Quotes

“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”

Source : Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”
“Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.”
“I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.”
“[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.”
“I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative”
“A frame is the foundation from which everything evolves.”
“An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.”

Source : Otto Weininger (2005). “Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles”, p.147, Indiana University Press
“In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.”

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