Thích Nhất Hạnh Quotes

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

One included all, and all were contained in one.

When conditions are sufficient things manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient things withdraw. They wait until the moment is right for them to manifest again.

Other people’s actions are the result of their own pain and not the result of any intention to hurt you.

As long as fear is in us, happiness cannot be perfect.

In the stormy ocean of life, take refuge in your wise self.

Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.

Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.

The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

We are the continuation of all our ancestors. Thanks to impermanence, we have a chance to transform our inheritance in a beautiful direction.