Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

Just enjoy every moment - don't stress. Just be yourself.

I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

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

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.