Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Freedom is from within.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Freedom resides within the soul.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

Now, I simply do what I want.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.