Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by Vietnamese Authors - Page 2
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Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.
But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?
If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.
One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Vietnam's Communist Party is one-party rule but we also have principles of democracy and accountability of the leaders. Otherwise the faults would be blamed on the entire group and merits would be credited to the individual.
I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
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.
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.
We will resolutely and persistently maintain independence while fighting for the protection of our sovereignty, but we must maintain a peaceful environment for development.
Let me be very frank. I didn't expect to be introduced and elected.
I am happy with what I've done.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.
We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.
Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
It's very surreal. It seems like everywhere I go, people always talk about 'Indiana Jones,' and I realized over the years it has made a huge impact on their childhoods... I feel very fortunate to be a part of this.
The Politburo and Secretariat for many terms now have made some big mistakes, especially having not prevented and remedied corruption and the deterioration among some party members.
I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Policies and actions should have the interest of our people at the heart, so that no one, and no country, will be left behind.
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market economy in an adequate and correct way.
'Hibakusha' is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.