Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
THICH NHAT HANHWhen you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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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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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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My actions are my only true belongings.
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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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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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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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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
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Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
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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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In true love, you attain freedom.
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