"In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one of life's important takes, my mother told me, is to protect it."

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Source : Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.29, Doubleday

Le Ly Hayslip

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“To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a â€œgift.â€”

Source : Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr
“The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.”
“I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life. As my career got successful and I wanted to do things for her, she wasn't able to allow them because she just didn't work that way. It was always that. It wasn't necessarily ugly, just complicated.”

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“The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.”
“In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.”
“Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.”
“Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.”
“I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.”

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