“Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself — if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself — it is very difficult to take care of another person.”

—  Thich Nhat Hanh

Quoted on his official website (30 December 2008) http://www.plumvillage.org/

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Religious leader and peace activist 1926

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