Le Ly Hayslip Quotes

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The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace)
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In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one of life's important tasks, my mother told me, is to protect it.
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace)
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For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. 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 us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace)
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Hating people who wronged me only kept me in their power. Forgiving them and thanking them for the lessons they taught me, on the other hand set me free to continue on my way.
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Le Ly Hayslip
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I can only say what I myself have learned: that life's purpose is to grow. We have time in abundance- an enternity, in fact- to repeat our mistakes. We only need to correct them once, however- to learn our lesson and hear the song of enlightenment- to break the chain of vengeance forever. If we can do this personally, no matter how many others follow, our hearts will at least find peace.
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Le Ly Hayslip
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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.
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places)
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Because our house was at the edge of the village and the first place people working in the fields would run to when the fighting started, my father insisted that our bunker be big enough for extra people.
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Le Ly Hayslip (Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (A Vintage Short))
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Don’t wonder about right and wrong. Those are weapons as deadly as bombs and bullets. Right is the goodness you carry in your heartβ€”love for your ancestors and your baby and your family and for everything that lives. Wrong is anything that comes between you and that love.
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series))
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When the Republicans caught us around a dead Viet Cong fighter, we had to act like we didn’t know what was going on. We would tell the soldiers that nobody knew who the dead person was, even though his family might be standing right there, holding back their tears. We would claim the dead man was a vagabond or someone from another village. β€œWould you soldiers like to haul him away for us?” No, they would not. So we’d bury him ourselves and the relatives would mourn in secret.
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Le Ly Hayslip (Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (A Vintage Short))
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When the worst around you are only victims forgiveness and compassion come a lot easier
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series))
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It's easy to be charitable when you're powerful and rich; more difficult when you're weak and needy -but that's when it counts the most.!
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series))
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The difference, I think, is that in Vietnam, people seem to have no choice about the kind of house they live in. They may want to fix the roof, but they can’t do much about it, so they fight each other for a dry spot on the floor away from all the leaks.
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places)
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Only a half-trained mechanic thinks everything needs fixing.
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Le Ly Hayslip (Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (A Vintage Short))
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Because he sang these songs with a comical voice, my mother never appreciated them. She couldn’t see the absurdity of our situation as clearly as we children. To her, war and real life were different. To us, they were all the same.
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Le Ly Hayslip (Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (A Vintage Short))
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Violence in any form offended him. For this reason, I think, he grew old before his time.
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Le Ly Hayslip (Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (A Vintage Short))
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Because I was his youngest daughter, I was entitled to listen from his kneeβ€”the place of honor.
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Le Ly Hayslip (Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (A Vintage Short))
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This was unheard ofβ€”a father doing these things with a child that was not a son! Where my mother would instruct me on cooking and cleaning and tell stories about brides, my father showed me the mystery of hammers and explained the customs of our people.
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Le Ly Hayslip (Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (A Vintage Short))
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For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. 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 us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series))
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Tell them there are pretty dreams in Vietnam for everybody.
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Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places)