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.
THICH NHAT HANHHappiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
-
-
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 HANH -
When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
THICH NHAT HANH -
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
THICH NHAT HANH -
When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
THICH NHAT HANH -
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
THICH NHAT HANH -
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
THICH NHAT HANH -
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.
THICH NHAT HANH -
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
THICH NHAT HANH -
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
THICH NHAT HANH -
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
THICH NHAT HANH -
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
THICH NHAT HANH -
Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.
THICH NHAT HANH -
Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
THICH NHAT HANH -
Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
THICH NHAT HANH -
Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.
THICH NHAT HANH