Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

I do wonder if it's my responsibility to spread a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just, like, don't be racist or whatever, but I don't want to be the person who's like, 'Everyone be vegan forever!'

Love your fellow man, and take care of each other and your environment.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources

When someone needs help, you help. Right?

Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come to a more ethical view of life within our communities that is more inclusive than exclusive, one that is extended even beyond our own species.

All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

I can tell you what I am working on, which is being more cognizant of my actions and how they affect others, most I will never meet. I've begun with my purchases. I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five that are cheaper but made with GMO cotton, which is hard on Earth. It's caring a little more beyond myself. And I think it may be our only hope - and it feels much better to my soul, which in the end may be all we have.

All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

A simple lifestyle is good for us, helping us to better share with those in need.

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

Each of us can do something to help someone.

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.