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Less Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It…
- The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us.…
- We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it…
- We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out…
- 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…
- Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe…
- A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less.…
- As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will…
- Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear…
- Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are…
- An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then…
- We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of…
- Even though we are primarily responsible for our own anger, we believe naively that if we can say something or do something to punish the…
More Less Quotes
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Take Me Or Leave Me Accept Me Or Walk Away, Love Me Or Hate Me But Dont Make Me Feel Like Less… — Superman
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis