Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
THICH NHAT HANHKeeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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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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Your presence is a miracle.
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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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In true love, you attain freedom.
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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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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Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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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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The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
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