Avishek Bhattacharjee’s Reviews > When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace > Status Update

The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.