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To tease someone is a sign of intimacy and friendship, to know that there is a reservoir of affection from which we all drink as funny and flawed humans.
“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.”
‘Wherever you have friends that’s your country, and wherever you receive love, that’s your home.’”
nothing beautiful in the end comes without a measure of some pain, some frustration, some suffering. This is the nature of things. This is how our universe has been made up.”
Many people are waiting for happiness or joy.
the concept of Ubuntu. It says: A person is a person through other persons.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“I prefer to go to hell than to heaven. I can solve more problems in hell. I can help more people there.”
our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. She explains that our perspective literally has the power to keep us alive or to cause our death.
When we meet anyone, first and foremost we must remember that they, too, have the same desire to have a happy day, a happy month, a happy life.
“But they took thirty years of your life—how can you not be angry?” Hinton responded, “If I’m angry and unforgiving, they will have taken the rest of my life.”
Did the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop smile because they were happy, or were they happy because they smiled?
The Buddha supposedly said, “What is that one thing, which when you possess, you have all other virtues? It is compassion.”
So it seems that money can buy happiness, if we spend it on other people.
May you be free from suffering. May you be healthy. May you be happy. May you find peace and joy.
