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.
THICH NHAT HANHHappiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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Today is the most important day of our lives.
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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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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
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As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
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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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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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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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Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
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To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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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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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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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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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
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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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