To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
THICH NHAT HANHOnly the present moment contains life.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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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.
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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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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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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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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.
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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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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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Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
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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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Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.
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