Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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Cultivate Happiness Love Nourish Ourselves Peace
In true love, there is no pride.
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Love One Liner Pride
What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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Inspirational Look Seek
You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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Appointment Inspirational Life
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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Optimism Problem Reality Thinking Truth
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
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Conscious Deep Depend Inspirational Life Quality Seed
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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Angry Human Learning Peace Smile
Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Important Inspirational Live Morning One Liner Positive
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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Fear Focus Future Past Worry
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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Change Compassion Inspirational Moments Ourselves Smile World
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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Anchor Breathe Clouds Conscious Feeling Inspirational Sky Wind
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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Couple Feeling Freedom Love Person Positive
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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Bloom Deal Inspirational Negative Positive Touch Try Wrong
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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Home Meditation Realize Touch
Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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Condition Freedom Giving Happiness Let Go
Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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Available Happiness Help Please Positive Yourself
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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People Phenomena Reality
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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Arrive Couple Enjoyment Love Thinking Walk
To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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Existence Love Recognize
Your presence is a miracle.
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Anniversary Couple Miracle One Liner Presence Valentine
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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Inspirational Life Live Lose Yourself
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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Break Up Let Go Permanent Suffering Thinking
Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
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Be Yourself Element Happiness Need Precious Struggle
When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
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Action Attitude Change Inspirational Speak Thinking World
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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Glance Love Movement Possible
Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.
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Action Happiness Inspirational Look Positive Smile
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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Expression Generosity Love Mind Person Spend Time

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