Happiness Quotes by Thích Nhất Hạnh

“The bikku should not rest content until mental intoxicants are fully extinct.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“I am convinced that happiness is not possible unless it is based on freedom.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“We can recognize happiness only when we remember the times of suffering!”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Happiness can be attained by letting go, including letting go of your ideas about happiness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Give up the lesser comforts for the greater happiness.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Our happiness and suffering are the happiness and suffering of others.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Releasing both victory and defeat, the tranquil minds dwell in happiness. Victory produces hostility.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Health is the highest prize. Contentment is the greatest wealth. A loyal friend is the best relative. Nirvana is supreme bliss.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Happiness is a function of compassion. If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness. The”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Knowing how to handle suffering, you know at the same time how to produce happiness. And if you’re truly happy, we all…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it. All of us have the capacity of transforming neutral feelings into pleasant feelings, very…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“You have to realize that happiness is not something you find at the end of the road. You have to understand that…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Happiness is impermanent, but it can be renewed. You are also impermanent and also renewable, like your breath, like your steps. You…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Your good intentions are not enough; you have to be artful. We may be filled with goodwill; we may be motivated by…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you know how to make good use of the mud, you can grow beautiful lotuses. If you know how to make…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“The notions and ideas we have about happiness can entrap us. We forget that they are just notions and ideas. Our idea…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Live in a way that encourages deep happiness in yourself and others. You can vow to bring joy to one person in…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Meditation consists of generating three kinds of energy: mindfulness, concentration, and insight. These three energies give us power to nourish happiness and…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice deep looking…

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“The greatest miracle is to be alive. We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Bhikkhus, what is meant by ‘pursuing the past’? To pursue the past means to lose yourself in thoughts about what you looked…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance…

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“Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Our joy, our peace, our happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming our habit energies. There are positive…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment; enlightenment is the way.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Happiness is possible only when you stop running and cherish the present moment and who you are. Who you are is already…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“To be enlightened is always to be enlightened about something. I am enlightened about the fact that I am drinking a glass…

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“Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“This is the nonduality principle of Buddhism: there is nothing to throw away. If a person has never suffered, he or she…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh