"We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation."

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Nhat Hanh

#Suffering Quotes #Needs Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.”
“A great gift is an answer waiting for a question.”
“Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.”
“Focus on the positive things in your life and you'll be shocked at how many more positive things start happening”
“I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.”
“That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.”

Source : John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster
“In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.”
“For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting....”

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