Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.

Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture