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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

Thich Nhat Hanh

There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.
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Concentrate Inspirational Myself Problem Time Worry
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
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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Inspirational Life Live Lose Yourself
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
The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
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Arrive Destination Realize Space Time Transformation
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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Cultivate Happiness Love Nourish Ourselves Peace
You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
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Growth Person Seed Teacher Touch Transmit Wake Up Wisdom
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
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Away Choice Further Lead Moments Spirit
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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Believe Difficult Future Hope Important Moments Present
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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Business Growth Inspirational Lotus Mud Strategy Success
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
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Alive Aware Breathe Enlightenment Greatness Touch
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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Catch Freedom People Release Suffering View
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
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Future Gone Life Moments Ourselves Past Present Touch
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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Couple Deep Love Presence Relationship
Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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Morning Peace Positive Possible Seek
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
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Endeavor Habit Joy Live Ourselves Relax Run Success Time
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
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Change Dialogue Inspirational One Liner
Only the present moment contains life.
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Deep Inspirational Life Moments One Liner Present
I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
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Arrive Destination Home Step
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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Approach Awake Gentle Mind Smile Source True Understand
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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Bloom Deal Inspirational Negative Positive Touch Try Wrong
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Body Cloud Expression Gratitude Health Tree
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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Inspirational Joy Morning Positive Smile Source
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
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.
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Alone Darkness Kindness Love Myself Practice Smile Take Care
Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
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Be Yourself Element Happiness Need Precious Struggle

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