A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
THICH NHAT HANHSilence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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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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Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
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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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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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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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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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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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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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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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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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