Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
THICH NHAT HANHTo be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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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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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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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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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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Your presence is a miracle.
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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
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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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The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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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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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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Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.
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