If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
THICH NHAT HANHLetting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
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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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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
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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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Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
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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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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
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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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Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
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Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.
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There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
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As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
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