Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
THICH NHAT HANHThe way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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Smile, breathe and go slowly.
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There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.
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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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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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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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In true love, you attain freedom.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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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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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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When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
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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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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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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 are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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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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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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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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