Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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Experience Healing Inspirational Learning Struggle Suffering
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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Ability Anxiety Come Dwell Ill Moments Present Time
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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Endeavor Habit Joy Live Ourselves Relax Run Success Time
Be part of the miraculous moment.
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Inspirational Miracle Moments One Liner Positive
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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Angry Breathe Conscious Feeling Focus Rise Storm
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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Business Growth Inspirational Lotus Mud Strategy Success
Only the present moment contains life.
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Deep Inspirational Life Moments One Liner Present
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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Anniversary Beautiful Couple Life Marriage Smile Valentine Wife
Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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Alive Hustle Inspirational One Liner Possible
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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Breathe Inspirational Morning One Liner Patience Smile
The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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Alive Greatness Miracle Morning One Liner Positive
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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Arrive Destination Realize Space Time Transformation
Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
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Contribute Help Movement Peace People Smile
Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
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Contribute Help Movement Peace People Smile
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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Abandonment Inspirational Need Reveal View
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
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Body Family Feeling Home Need Perception Suffering Take Care
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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Inspirational Joy Morning Positive Smile Source
Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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Compassion Inspirational Learning Suffering Understand
My actions are my only true belongings.
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Action Belong Entrepreneur Inspirational One Liner True
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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Believe Difficult Future Hope Important Moments Present
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
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Body Breathe Calm Inspirational Mind Moments Smile
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Break Up Failure Lack Suffering Understand Yourself
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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Excitement Happiness Peace People Thinking True
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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Help Kindness Listen Suffering
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
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Depression Fear Hard Time Let Go People Suffering
In true love, you attain freedom.
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Attain Freedom Love One Liner True Love
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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Deep Hurt Importance Inspirational Moments Self Love Understand

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