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Day Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.
- Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each…
- In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify…
- The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
- Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each…
- Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn…
- We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will…
- Today is the most important day of our lives.
- Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living…
- The Buddha said, 'Nothing can survive without food.' This is a very simple and very deep truth. Love and hate are both living phenomena. If…
- If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep…
- If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the…
- If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day,…
- In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new…
- People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water…
- I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
- From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day…
- It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be…
- If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful…
- Peace ca n exist only in the present moment. It is rid iculous to say "Wait until I fi nish this, then I will be…
- Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from…
- If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong