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.
THICH NHAT HANHHappiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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The three kinds of pride are: thinking I am better than the others; thinking I am worse than the others; and thinking I am just as good as the others.
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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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You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
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Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
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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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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.
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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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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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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
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The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
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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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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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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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My actions are my only true belongings.
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