All Nhat Hanh Quotes
- If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in… Bringing
- People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make… Action
- If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This… Basic
- We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If… Buddhist
- In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. Enemies
- In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. Both
- Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Buddhist
- The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. Action
- Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for… Able
- Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. Anyone
- Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of… Doubt
- Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature. Action
- Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Cessation
- I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world. Buddhism
- If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy. Become Grateful
- If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. Abandon
- In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living… Act
- Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. Capacity
- Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping. All
- Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive. Alive
- Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. Act
- Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. Condition
- Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings. Beings
- One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas. Buddha
- People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore. Anymore