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Quotes & Thinkers from Vietnam
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🇻🇳Thich Nhat Hanh
Literature
Buddhism
1926–2022
"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
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🇻🇳Thích Nhật Từ
Religion
"Harmony: A single candle can lit a thousand candles without losing anything. It is the multitude of trees that make a forest. Let us be like those shining candles and useful trees benefitting all sentient beings."
13 quotes
🇻🇳Nguyen Khanh
Politics
1927–2013
"China believes it is the center of the universe. Look at its flag: one big star surrounded by satellite stars. Arrogant!"
21 quotes
🇻🇳William Calley
Military
1943–2024
"In war, the dead people don't cry. The ones who are still alive do."
9 quotes
🇻🇳Thích Nhất Hạnh
Literature
Engaged Buddhism
1926–2022
"Freedom from suffering is a great happiness."
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🇻🇳Nguyễn Duy
Literature
b. 1948
"Whatever has happened, the land always lives within us... We are the people and we will endure."
1 quotes
🇻🇳Nguyen Minh Triet
Politics
1 quotes
🇻🇳Hồ Xuân Hương
Literature
"To hell with the fate that makes you share a man... You slave like the maid, but without the pay. If I had known how it would go, I think I would have lived alone."
2 quotes
🇻🇳Mai Văn Phấn
Literature
b. 1955
"Whether be written with any trend, poetry is always carrying the beauty of primordial, to the resurrection, recreate the world, forever opposed to the bad and evil."
2 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
— Thich Nhat Hanh, b. 1926View →
"Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence."
— Thích Nhất Hạnh, b. 1926View →
"The same clouds that Buddha had seen were in the sky. Each serene step brought to life the old path and white clouds of the Buddha. The path of Buddha was beneath his very feet."
— Thích Nhất Hạnh, b. 1926View →
"I have a promise to keep; to return to a free and democratic Vietnam."
— Nguyen Khanh, b. 1927View →
"I took with me in my hand on the departing plane a bag of sand, a bag of earth from the soil of a free South Vietnam. My western hero had always been General Douglas MacArthur who made the famous promise "I shall return", after he lost a battle in the Philippines."
— Nguyen Khanh, b. 1927View →