The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
THICH NHAT HANHThe 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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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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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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Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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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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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
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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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Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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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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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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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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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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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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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
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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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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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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 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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