Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.

To be happy, make other people happy.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy.

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him.

I'm a firm believer in smiles. I used to believe that everything had to be a belly laugh. But I've come to realize that a real sincere smile is mighty powerful.

Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.

I just like to see people smile.

Selfishly, it feels great for me to do something that might put a smile on someone else's face.

Choosing kindness is just as easy as smiling.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.

Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.