When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments.

That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

Thich Nhat Hahn

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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek proverb

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You can make the place you are now your paradise.

Unknown

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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Jean de La Bruyere

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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced... Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee saying

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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A rich man is not one who has the most, but one who needs the least.

Unknown

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