73 Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes for You to Enjoy

Thich Nhat Hanh

Vietnamese Clergyman

Born: Oct 11, 1926

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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. Thich Nhat Hanh

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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

Today Hope Better Tomorrow Will Important Believe Difficult Bear Make Because Less Moment Hardship Present Present Moment

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. 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

Smile Joy Sometimes Source Your

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. Thich Nhat Hanh

Possibilities More Than Available Realize Moment Each

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

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It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. Thich Nhat Hanh

Art Creative Problems Focus Resting Important Chronic Our Minds Worrying Relaxing Solutions Find Only Prevent Through Develop Clear Tension Does Very Us Help Many Illnesses

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living. Thich Nhat Hanh

Time Joy Relax Will Living Our Ourselves Running More Habit Take Also Go Lot Endeavors Little Successful Let Go

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? Thich Nhat Hanh

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. Thich Nhat Hanh

Wisdom Too Much Resting Lost Too Our Minds Worry Relaxing Allow Heal Genuinely Hearts Much Bodies Humans

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace Joy Breath Every Every Step Take Step Make Serenity Filled

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore. Thich Nhat Hanh

People Free Release Those Soon Because Caught Anymore Views Suffer

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. Thich Nhat Hanh

Life Future People Walk Sacrifice Every Every Step Way Only Step Available Us Should Such A Way Now Why Present Bring Here

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? Thich Nhat Hanh

Love Best You Someone How Offer Your Thing Presence

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

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. Thich Nhat Hanh

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping. Thich Nhat Hanh

Practice Our Our Lives All Our Lives Running Been Stopping Us Many Lives

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