Top 450 Nhat Hanh Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.”

— Nhat Hanh

152. “People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.”

— Nhat Hanh

153. “In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.”

— Nhat Hanh

154. “Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.”

— Nhat Hanh

155. “Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.”

— Nhat Hanh

156. “Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.”

— Nhat Hanh

157. “Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.”

— Nhat Hanh

158. “That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don’t really live their life – they live like dead people.”

— Nhat Hanh

159. “Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.”

— Nhat Hanh

160. “You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.”

— Nhat Hanh

161. “You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.”

— Nhat Hanh

162. “With mindfulness – the practice of peace – we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.”

— Nhat Hanh

163. “Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.”

— Nhat Hanh

164. “Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.”

— Nhat Hanh

165. “There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.”

— Nhat Hanh

166. “Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.”

— Nhat Hanh

167. “You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.”

— Nhat Hanh

168. “Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.”

— Nhat Hanh

169. “If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”

— Nhat Hanh

170. “To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.”

— Nhat Hanh

171. “The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.”

— Nhat Hanh

172. “If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”

— Nhat Hanh

173. “People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?”

— Nhat Hanh

174. “In true love, you attain freedom.”

— Nhat Hanh

175. “We ourselves need love; it’s not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can’t expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.”

— Nhat Hanh

176. “If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.”

— Nhat Hanh

177. “We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.”

— Nhat Hanh

178. “If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

— Nhat Hanh

179. “Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

180. “The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”

— Nhat Hanh

181. “Your presence is a miracle.”

— Nhat Hanh

182. “Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.”

— Nhat Hanh

183. “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

— Nhat Hanh

184. “You are not an observer, you are a participant.”

— Nhat Hanh

185. “They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.”

— Nhat Hanh

186. “Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.”

— Nhat Hanh

187. “As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.”

— Nhat Hanh

188. “One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.”

— Nhat Hanh

189. “Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?”

— Nhat Hanh

190. “I vow to live fully in each moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

191. “Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.”

— Nhat Hanh

192. “Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.”

— Nhat Hanh

193. “When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.”

— Nhat Hanh

194. “Our own life has to be our message.”

— Nhat Hanh

195. “The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”

— Nhat Hanh

196. “In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.”

— Nhat Hanh

197. “When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don’t have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.”

— Nhat Hanh

198. “Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.”

— Nhat Hanh

199. “If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.”

— Nhat Hanh

200. “I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.”

— Nhat Hanh