Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Peace is its own reward.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I'm at peace.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.