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We tell children about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy for reasons we think emotionally sound, but then disabuse them of these myths before they've grown. Why retract? Because their well-being as adults depends on them knowing the world as it really is. We worry, and for good reason, about adults who still believe in Santa Claus.
— Carl Sagan
And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
— Carl Sagan
She pulls upright, wiping her face 'But that's another one of those clichés I don't get. The light. I feel it sometimes. It makes sense that you have to beat back the darkness, but I just don't understand why there's darkness in the first place. Sometimes I feel like the world has fractured into a million pieces and they're closing in on me, and I have to push each piece back with my hands and my feet and my head to keep it from squeezing me to death.
— Terri Blackstock
Everyone here is in a lot of pain, and as they say, hurting people hurt people. Part of your recovery
— Terri Blackstock
If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes our parents are full of love and sometimes they are full of anger. This love and anger comes not only from them, but from all previous generations. When we can see this, we no longer blame our parents for our suffering.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When a feeling or thought arises, your intention should not be to chase it away, even if by continuing to concentrate on the breath the feeling or thought passes naturally from the mind. The intention isn't to chase it away, hate it, worry about it, or be frightened by it. So what exactly should you be doing concerning such thoughts and feelings? Simply acknowledge their presence.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
You discover that the main cause of your suffering is the seed of anger in you, because it has been watered too often, by yourself and by other people.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When we recognize that we have a habit of replaying old events and reacting to new events as if they were the old ones, we can begin to notice when that habit energy comes up. We can then gently remind ourselves that we have another choice. We can look at the moment as it is, a fresh moment, and leave the past for a time when we can look at it compassionately. We
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In the past, we probably did suffer from one thing or another. It may even have felt like a kind of hell. If we remember that suffering, not letting ourselves get carried away by it, we can use it to remind ourselves, How lucky I am right now. I'm not in that situation. I can be happy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The fear, the anger and the despair is born on the ground of wrong perception.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Everything is in your own heart.
— Thich Nhat Hanh