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Love Quotes by Nhat Hanh

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Nhat Hanh teaches that love grows in a harmonious sangha where peace and understanding live together. He ties love to mindful presence, saying each step can bring a fresh breeze and a blooming flower. He also stresses that true love needs deep understanding of another’s needs and suffering.

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Go slowly, breathe and smile.

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The war is in our souls.

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Smile, breathe, go slowly.

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When we are present, life is also present.

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Today is the most important day of our lives.

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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

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With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

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When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.

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You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

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Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves.

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If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

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We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

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In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we…

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Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is…

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When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love…

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Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

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Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

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If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be…

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To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way…

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Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

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We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we…

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If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation…

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If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is…

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The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and…

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Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for…

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The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small…

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Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living…

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So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease…

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The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put…

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

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A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which…

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Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look…

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

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When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not…

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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy…

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The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

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Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

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When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.

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In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

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