Flower Quotes by Nhat Hanh

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.

— Nhat Hanh

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

— Nhat Hanh

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

— Nhat Hanh

Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

— Nhat Hanh

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as…

— Nhat Hanh

In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds,…

— Nhat Hanh

With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform…

— Nhat Hanh

Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of…

— Nhat Hanh

When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in…

— Nhat Hanh

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and…

— Nhat Hanh

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that…

— Nhat Hanh

If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love,…

— Nhat Hanh

Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves…

— Nhat Hanh

If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow.…

— Nhat Hanh

We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows…

— Nhat Hanh

The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of…

— Nhat Hanh

You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden…

— Nhat Hanh

Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree,…

— Nhat Hanh

In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have…

— Nhat Hanh

A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have…

— Nhat Hanh

Walk and touch peace every moment. Walk and touch happiness every moment. Each step brings a fresh breeze. Each step makes a…

— Nhat Hanh

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to…

— Nhat Hanh

You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I…

— Nhat Hanh

It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud…

— Nhat Hanh