I have lost my smile,but don’t worry.The dandelion has it.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Related Quotes:
- Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don’t try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won’t have to go around search for it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Understanding is the other name of love. If you don’t understand, you can’t love. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Once you can communicate with yourself, you’ll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Understanding and love aren’t two separate things, they’re just one. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- …if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn’t mean you’re communicating with another person. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -”the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- We all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment – Thich Nhat Hanh
- The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- While practicing mindfulness, don’t be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Now I see that if one doesn’t know how to die, one can hardly know how to live – because deathis a part of life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- When mindfulness is present, the Buddha and the Holy Spirit are already there, – Thich Nhat Hanh
- The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won’t want to let it in. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Love has no meaning without understanding – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Love has no meaning without understanding – Thich Nhat Hanh
- We can’t wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist. – Thich Nhat Hanh