Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
THICH NHAT HANHThe moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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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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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.
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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 way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
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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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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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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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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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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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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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