You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Walk and touch peace every moment. Walk and touch happiness every moment. Each step brings a fresh breeze. Each step makes a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is a paradise of form and colors in the world. And because you have eyes still in good condition, you can… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
