1. “Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

— Nhat Hanh

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2. “Smile, breathe, go slowly.”

— Nhat Hanh

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3. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

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4. “Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”

— Nhat Hanh

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5. “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”

— Nhat Hanh

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6. “Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”

— Nhat Hanh

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7. “Today is the most important day of our lives.”

— Nhat Hanh

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8. “The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.”

— Nhat Hanh

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9. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

— Nhat Hanh

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10. “Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.”

— Nhat Hanh

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11. “Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

— Nhat Hanh

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12. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

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13. “Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.”

— Nhat Hanh

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14. “Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”

— Nhat Hanh

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15. “Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing?”

— Nhat Hanh

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16. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

— Nhat Hanh

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17. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Nhat Hanh

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18. “If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

— Nhat Hanh

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19. “When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.”

— Nhat Hanh

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20. “I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.”

— Nhat Hanh

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21. “The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom.”

— Nhat Hanh

22. “Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”

— Nhat Hanh

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23. “Go slowly, breathe and smile.”

— Nhat Hanh

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24. “To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.”

— Nhat Hanh

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25. “Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.”

— Nhat Hanh

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26. “In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

— Nhat Hanh

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27. “Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.”

— Nhat Hanh

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28. “Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breathe and you see impermanence is life.”

— Nhat Hanh

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29. “Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.”

— Nhat Hanh

30. “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

— Nhat Hanh

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31. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Nhat Hanh

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32. “Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.”

— Nhat Hanh

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33. “There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.”

— Nhat Hanh

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34. “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.”

— Nhat Hanh

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35. “The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?”

— Nhat Hanh

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36. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

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37. “A smile can change the situation of the world.”

— Nhat Hanh

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38. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Nhat Hanh

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39. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

— Nhat Hanh

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40. “Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.”

— Nhat Hanh

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41. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

— Nhat Hanh

42. “You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.”

— Nhat Hanh

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43. “When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.”

— Nhat Hanh

44. “Often we tell ourselves, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: “Don’t just do something, sit there!””

— Nhat Hanh

45. “It’s like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.”

— Nhat Hanh

46. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

— Nhat Hanh

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47. “Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.”

— Nhat Hanh

48. “Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.”

— Nhat Hanh

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49. “If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.”

— Nhat Hanh

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50. “Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”

— Nhat Hanh

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