Top 450 Nhat Hanh Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.”

— Nhat Hanh

203. “People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.”

— Nhat Hanh

204. “People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality.”

— Nhat Hanh

205. “We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.”

— Nhat Hanh

206. “Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.”

— Nhat Hanh

207. “Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.”

— Nhat Hanh

208. “To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.”

— Nhat Hanh

209. “But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.”

— Nhat Hanh

210. “The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.”

— Nhat Hanh

211. “Just listen Be peace.”

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212. “One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.”

— Nhat Hanh

213. “Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don’t take the next step.”

— Nhat Hanh

214. “Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.”

— Nhat Hanh

215. “People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.”

— Nhat Hanh

216. “There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes.”

— Nhat Hanh

217. “We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”

— Nhat Hanh

218. “We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

219. “Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.”

— Nhat Hanh

220. “Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

— Nhat Hanh

221. “If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.”

— Nhat Hanh

222. “Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.”

— Nhat Hanh

223. “To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.”

— Nhat Hanh

224. “When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.”

— Nhat Hanh

225. “If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.”

— Nhat Hanh

226. “Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.”

— Nhat Hanh

227. “Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.”

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228. “To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”

— Nhat Hanh

229. “Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.”

— Nhat Hanh

230. “When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.”

— Nhat Hanh

231. “Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.”

— Nhat Hanh

232. “Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.”

— Nhat Hanh

233. “Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.”

— Nhat Hanh

234. “You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.”

— Nhat Hanh

235. “When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”

— Nhat Hanh

236. “You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.”

— Nhat Hanh

237. “The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.”

— Nhat Hanh

238. “Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word “art”. If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don’t have to talk about it at all.”

— Nhat Hanh

239. “The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.”

— Nhat Hanh

240. “Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.”

— Nhat Hanh

241. “True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.”

— Nhat Hanh

242. “Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.”

— Nhat Hanh

243. “Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living every day for the rest of your life.”

— Nhat Hanh

244. “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”

— Nhat Hanh

245. “The bad things, don’t do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.”

— Nhat Hanh

246. “It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.”

— Nhat Hanh

247. “The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.”

— Nhat Hanh

248. “The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”

— Nhat Hanh

249. “If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”

— Nhat Hanh

250. “Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.”

— Nhat Hanh