The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
THICH NHAT HANHWe can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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In true love, you attain freedom.
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A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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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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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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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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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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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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Be part of the miraculous moment.
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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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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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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
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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 no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available.
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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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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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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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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