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More Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.
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.
This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.
Today is the most important day of our lives.
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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.
The Buddha said, 'Nothing can survive without food.' This is a very simple and very deep truth. Love and hate are both living phenomena. If we do not nourish our love, it will die and may turn into hate. If we want love to last, we have to nurture it and give it food every day. Hate is the same; if we don't feed it, it cannot survive.
