Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Thich Nhat Hanh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahmoud Abbas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zhuangzi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold Ramis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Christian Andersen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sunlight is painting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathaniel Hawthorne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				B. B. King 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Schuler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Q-Tip 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daisaku Ikeda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vilayanur S. Ramachandran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ingrid Bergman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. L. Doctorow