Thomas Dang > Thomas's Quotes

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
― Confucius

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
― Confucius

“O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!”
― Madame Roland

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Walter Langer

“Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
― Frank Sinatra

“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
― Louis Pasteur

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic requirement of life is metabolism, and death its cessation.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.”
― Ho Chi Minh

“Sống trong đời sống cần có một tấm lòng. Để làm gì, em biết không? Để gió cuốn đi.”
― Trịnh Công Sơn

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

“Life is available only in the present moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

“Compassion is a verb.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Breathing in, there is only the present moment.
Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Tea is an act complete in its simplicity.
When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea.
The rest of the world dissolves.
There are no worries about the future.
No dwelling on past mistakes.
Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup.
I inhale the scent, tiny delicate pieces of the tea floating above the cup.
I drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me.
I am informed by the tea, changed.
This is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed: all the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.
There is only the tea, and me, converging.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.”
― Erwin Rommel

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.”
― Heinz Guderian

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front