Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Ever since I met Sangram Singh, I am at peace with myself.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us

Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.