Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of suffering, and compassion is the kind of energy that can transform suffering. If suffering is not there, we have no means to cultivate our understanding and our compassion. This is something quite simple to see

Whom you would change, you must first love.

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Let our children be taught love love love.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.