Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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Amount Depend Freedom Happiness Heart Positive
Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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Business Knowledge Throw Understand
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
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Attachment Greatness Path Spiritual View
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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Acceptance Attitude Be Yourself Beautiful Inspirational Need
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
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Earth Feet Kiss Peace Serenity Walk
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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Be Yourself Missing Moments Ourselves Present
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
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Birth Concept Death Mind Reality Transcend
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
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Help Himself Message Punishment Suffering Truth
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Body Cloud Expression Gratitude Health Tree
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.
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Brand Compassion Entrepreneur Live Moments Morning Smile
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.
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Alone Darkness Kindness Love Myself Practice Smile Take Care
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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Approach Awake Gentle Mind Smile Source True Understand
There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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Morning Peace Positive Possible Seek
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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Enemy Human Ignorance Injustice Person Violence
Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Aware Happiness Inspirational Life Miracle Positive
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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Attention Bloom Embrace Flower Gift Inspirational Love
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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Future Gone Life Moments Ourselves Past Present Touch
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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Change Dialogue Inspirational One Liner
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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Distance Love Togetherness True Love Yourself
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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Angry Desire Fear Freedom Inspirational Victim Worth
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Away Choice Further Lead Moments Spirit
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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Action Adversity Aware Effective Love Non Violence Suffering
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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Arrive Happiness Inspirational Peace Run Thinking
A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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Beautiful Couple Encourage Friendship Love Seek Yourself
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
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Available Business Inspirational Moments Opportunity Possiblity Realize
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
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Alive Aware Breathe Enlightenment Greatness Touch

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