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 HANHAs we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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The three kinds of pride are: thinking I am better than the others; thinking I am worse than the others; and thinking I am just as good as the others.
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As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
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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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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
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