Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes And Sayings

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“I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong. … Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight. I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“In modern society most of us don’t want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book – we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“In true love, you attain freedom.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“It never helps to draw a line and dismiss some people as enemies, even those who act violently. We have to approach them with love in our hearts and do our best to help them move in a direction of nonviolence. If we work for peace out of anger, we will never succeed. Peace is not an end. It can never come about through non-peaceful means.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“It’s wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Know that life can only be found in the present moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

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