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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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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Contribute Help Movement Peace People Smile
Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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Excitement Happiness Peace People Thinking True
In true love, you attain freedom.
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Attain Freedom Love One Liner True Love
If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
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Action Emerge Foundation Heart Help Love Miracle Understand
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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Abundance Available Breathe Eat Food Happiness Smile Walk
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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Acceptance Attitude Be Yourself Beautiful Inspirational Need
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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Enemy Human Ignorance Injustice Person Violence
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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Choose Healing Positive Refresh Touch Wonderful Yourself
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.
THICH NHAT HANH

Contribute Help Movement Peace People Smile
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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Beautiful Couple Encourage Friendship Love Seek Yourself
Silence 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.
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Air Inspirational Mind Need Plant Silence
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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Help Himself Message Punishment Suffering Truth
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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Ability Anxiety Come Dwell Ill Moments Present Time
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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Break Up Failure Lack Suffering Understand Yourself
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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Action Adversity Aware Effective Love Non Violence Suffering
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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Abandonment Inspirational Need Reveal View

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