Nhat Hanh Quotes

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

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.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

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.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Your true home is in the here and the now.

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.

Life is available only in the present moment.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Smile, breathe, go slowly.

In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world.

May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.

If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

Our own life has to be our message.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

Compassion is a verb.

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.