Backgrounds Quote by Nhat Hanh Download Open image “You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.” — Nhat Hanh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backgrounds Happiness Suffering
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“We can recognize happiness only when we remember the times of suffering!” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
A real happiness can only be seen in every achievements and success without harming in every people'feelings. — Marivel Manaoat Copy Share Image
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
You cannot truly experience happiness until you experience pain. Because then only are you able to compare the difference and appreciate the gift of… — Pauline Seaport Copy Share Image
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share 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… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share 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… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share 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… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share 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.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share 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,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share 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… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
