Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
THICH NHAT HANHTo be loved means to be recognized as existing.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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In true love, you attain freedom.
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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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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Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.
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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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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
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Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Be part of the miraculous moment.
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If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
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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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