Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

I've learned never to say never.

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.