When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
THICH NHAT HANHSeek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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In true love, there is no pride.
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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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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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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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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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It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
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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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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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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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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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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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A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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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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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?
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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