Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

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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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  Topics in Joy, Smile

  Tags in Source, Sometimes
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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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  Tags in Happiness, Heart, Freedom
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  Patience is the mark of true love.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Patience, True
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  Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in Movement, Thought
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  Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Happiness, Freedom

• You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peaceful, Inspire

• You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Depend, Suffering

• You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship, Philosophy

• You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

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  Tags in Planet, Civilisation

• With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Foundation

• When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Planet, Consumption

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Endeavors, Successful

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Resting, Heal

• We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

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  Tags in Understanding, Ready

• We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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  Tags in Intelligent, Species

• There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Notions, Christianity

• The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Production, Worries

• People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

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  Tags in Available, Present

• Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Joyful, Wonderful

• It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prevent, Resting

Thich Nhat Hanh (121)

Birth:	11th October, 1926
Nationality:	Vietnamese
Profession:	Activist, Author, Poet, Teacher

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