You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
THICH NHAT HANHI promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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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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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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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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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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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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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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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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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.
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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