The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
THICH NHAT HANHPeople 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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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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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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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.
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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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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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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Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.
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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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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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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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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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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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