Nhat Hanh Quotes

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• No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Worthy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in.
  Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out.
  Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment.
  Breathing out, I smile.
  Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day.
  Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day.

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  Grateful, Breathing, I Smile

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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. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

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  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

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  Laughter, Struggle, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

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  Light, Air, Space

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Jan 27, 2015

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• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

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  Uplifting, Thinking, Suffering

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• Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

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  Running, Practice, Stopping

  "Stop Running, Start Being". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 1997.

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• Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

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  Life, Running, Being Yourself

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.153, Harmony

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• The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

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  Hurt, Loving Yourself, Moments

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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.

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  Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

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• Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

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  Healing, Wonderful, Refreshing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Smile, Beauty, Beautiful

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.

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  Yoga, Light, Different

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• Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

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  Anxiety, Inability, Moments

  Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1998). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings”

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• Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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  Love Is, Care, Capacity

  "This Is The Buddha's Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

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• There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

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  Beautiful, Fighting, Walking Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

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  Views, Needs, Abandon

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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  Buddhist, Attitude, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Oct 23, 2014

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• There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

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  Happiness, Buddhist, Inspiration

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

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  Home, Feelings, Perception

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 01, 2016

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• In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

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  Compassion, Our World, Looks

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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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.

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  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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• Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

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  Looks, Action

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1997). “Stepping into Freedom: An Introduction to Buddhist Monastic Training”, p.136, Parallax Press

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• We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

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  Life, Opportunity, Realizing

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