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“Ngày hôm qua có thể ta còn nhiều vụng về trong khi nói năng, hành động hay suy tư, nên đã khiến cho ta và người ta thương đều không có hạnh phúc. May mắn thay có thêm một ngày nữa để sửa chữa những lỗi lầm đó.”
― Minh Niệm, Hiểu về trái tim : nghệ thuật sống hạnh phúc

“Now a guarantee of happiness—that's a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. Someone would surely win millions, but millions would surely pay for it.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“If you think too much about the ass-kicking your mom gave you, or the ass-kicking that life gave you, you’ll stop pushing the boundaries and breaking the rules. It’s better to take it, spend some time crying, then wake up the next day and move on. You’ll have a few bruises and they’ll remind you of what happened and that’s okay. But after a while the bruises fade, and they fade for a reason—because now it’s time to get up to some shit again.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Our country itself was cursed, bastardized, partitioned into north and south, and if it could be said of us that we chose division and death in our uncivil war, that was also only partially true. We had not chosen to be debased by the French, to be divided by them into an unholy trinity of north, center, and south, and to be turned over to the great powers of capitalism and communism for a further bisection, then given roles as the clashing armies of a Cold War chess match played in air-conditioned rooms by white men wearing suits and lies.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer