Skip to content

Able Quote by Nhat Hanh

“Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able…” quote by Nhat Hanh — Download Open image

“Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Able Happiness Individual Matter Persons Profit Relief

More by Nhat Hanh

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Image

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

Image

If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?

Image

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

Image

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

Image

I vow to live fully in each moment.

Image

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you…

Image

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

Image

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in…

Image

We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace.…

Image

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower,…

Image

If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will…

Image

Explore all 507 Nhat Hanh quotes

More Able quotes

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

Jacques Lusseyran

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

Frederick Douglass

Image

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

Image

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

Image

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still…

Image

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it…

Anthony Jeselnik

Image

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be…

Image

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

Image

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

Image

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music…

Image

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this…

Image

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and…

Image

Browse all 17,006 Able quotes