Thich Nhat Hanh

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

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"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Sometimes, your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes, your smile can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear hardship today."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight."

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"Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment."

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"Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing."

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"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes, your smile can be the source of your joy."

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"At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."

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"Each morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."

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"Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath."

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"Anger is often a symptom of underlying pain or fear."

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"It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet."

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"The essence of our practice can be described as transforming suffering into happiness. It’s not a complicated practice, but it requires us to cultivate mindfulness, concentration, and insight. It requires first of all that we come home to ourselves, that we make peace with our suffering, treating it tenderly, and looking deeply at the roots of our pain. It requires that we let go of useless, unnecessary sufferings and take a closer look at our idea of happiness."

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"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

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."

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"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."

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"Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet."

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"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

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"Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart."

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"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."

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

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"The source of a true smile is an awakened mind."

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"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."

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"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it."

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"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos- the trees, the clouds, everything."

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"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer."

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"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."

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"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth. This is the real message of love."

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"The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy."

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"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."

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"The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear the hardship today."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything1anger, anxiety, or possessionswe cannot be free."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Because you are alive, everything is possible."

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"Many people think excitement is happiness...But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."

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"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."

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"Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment."

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"My actions are my only true belongings."

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"Our own life has to be our message."

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"Life is available only in the present moment."

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"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos1he trees, the clouds, everything."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"It is my conviction that there is no way to peacepeace is the way."

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"To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people."

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"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."

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"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love."

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"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."

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"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."

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"To smile to our pain is the wisest, the most intelligent, the most beautiful thing we can do. There is no better way."

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"Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we’re no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside."

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"Embrace your suffering tenderly."

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"Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is an ocean."

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"Smile, breathe, go slowly."

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"If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"With compassion in our heart, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos—the trees, the clouds, everything."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Smile, breathe and go slowly"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself [...] He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."

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"Usually, when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing."

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"Work is only a part of life. But work is life only when done in mindfulness."

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"Ideally, we are able to find a job and work in such a way that our work is of benefit to the Earth and to all living beings."

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"Perhaps one of the reasons we don't enjoy all these activities as much as we could is because we think activities need to be exciting for us to enjoy them. Many people confuse joy and happiness with excitement. But excitement is not the same as happiness. With joy and happiness we have a sense of satisfaction. There's a feeling of satisfaction in being in the here and now, when you recognize you have so many conditions for happiness in the present moment, whether you're sitting, walking, standing, or working."

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"Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work."

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"We already have everything we are looking for, everything we want to become. Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here."

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"With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment."

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"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"When disappointment knocks on your door, greet it with gratitude, for it reveals the gaps that need to be filled in order to grow."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Let us full our hearts with our own compassion towards ourselves and towards all living beings."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"With compassion in our heart, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"When a person’s speech is full of anger, it is because he or she suffers deeply."

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"We are primarily responsible for our anger, but we believe very naively that if we can say something or do something to punish the other person, we will suffer less. This kind of belief should be uprooted. Because whatever you do or say in a state of anger will only cause more damage in the relationship. Instead, we should try not to do anything or say anything when we are angry."

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"When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation, your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates."

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"When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity for accepting and having compassion for them is there."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand-new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."

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"The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice."

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"The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment."

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"Enjoy this moment; this is your life."

- Thich Nhat Hanh