If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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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Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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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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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.
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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
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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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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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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
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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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I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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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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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
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Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you’re truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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