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.
THICH NHAT HANHA true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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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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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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What you are looking for is already in you. You already are everything you are seeking.
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
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I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
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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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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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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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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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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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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
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