To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
THICH NHAT HANHWe 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.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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The three kinds of pride are: thinking I am better than the others; thinking I am worse than the others; and thinking I am just as good as the others.
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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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The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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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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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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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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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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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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