When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
THICH NHAT HANH
In true love, you attain freedom.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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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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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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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 greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
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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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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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