864 Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh

The fear, the anger and the despair is born on the ground of wrong perception.

When Jesus said, “I am the way,” He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way.

True love includes a sense of responsibility and accepting the other person as she is, with all her strengths and weaknesses. If you only like the best things in a person, that is not love.

Only the present moment contains life.

You are part of the universe; you are made of stars.

Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment.

If you know how to make good use of the mud, you can grow beautiful lotuses. If you know how to make good use of suffering, you can produce happiness. We do need some suffering to make happiness possible. And most of us have enough suffering inside and around us to be able to do that. We don’t have to create more.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment.

Teaching is not done by talking alone. It is done by how you live your life. My life is my teaching. My life is my message.