Top 450 Nhat Hanh Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

302. “The miracle is to walk on the earth.”

— Nhat Hanh

303. “Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.”

— Nhat Hanh

304. “When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.”

— Nhat Hanh

305. “I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.”

— Nhat Hanh

306. “May we awaken from the dream that we are different.”

— Nhat Hanh

307. “We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.”

— Nhat Hanh

308. “Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.”

— Nhat Hanh

309. “Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.”

— Nhat Hanh

310. “The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.”

— Nhat Hanh

311. “Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.”

— Nhat Hanh

312. “Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.”

— Nhat Hanh

313. “We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.”

— Nhat Hanh

314. “If you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path, and then the two can become good practitioners. This appears to be practical for both.”

— Nhat Hanh

315. “Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.”

— Nhat Hanh

316. “We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.”

— Nhat Hanh

317. “Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.”

— Nhat Hanh

318. “The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.”

— Nhat Hanh

319. “There are some people who eat an orange but don’t really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.”

— Nhat Hanh

320. “How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?”

— Nhat Hanh

321. “If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.”

— Nhat Hanh

322. “When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.”

— Nhat Hanh

323. “Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.”

— Nhat Hanh

324. “There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.”

— Nhat Hanh

325. “Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.”

— Nhat Hanh

326. “Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.”

— Nhat Hanh

327. “You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.”

— Nhat Hanh

328. “If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.”

— Nhat Hanh

329. “Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.”

— Nhat Hanh

330. “We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.”

— Nhat Hanh

331. “You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.”

— Nhat Hanh

332. “Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.”

— Nhat Hanh

333. “As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.”

— Nhat Hanh

334. “Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.”

— Nhat Hanh

335. “We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world.”

— Nhat Hanh

336. “Mindfulness is like that – it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.”

— Nhat Hanh

337. “We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle.”

— Nhat Hanh

338. “If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don’t have to suffer.”

— Nhat Hanh

339. “The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.”

— Nhat Hanh

340. “You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.”

— Nhat Hanh

341. “When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it.”

— Nhat Hanh

342. “Be part of the miraculous moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

343. “Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.”

— Nhat Hanh

344. “Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.”

— Nhat Hanh

345. “If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.”

— Nhat Hanh

346. “The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.”

— Nhat Hanh

347. “Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.”

— Nhat Hanh

348. “Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.”

— Nhat Hanh

349. “You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.”

— Nhat Hanh

350. “In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.”

— Nhat Hanh