Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

Being diagnosed with cancer helped me identify all that was wrong in my life. It also helped me search for the solutions. I discovered self-love; I learned to prioritise myself over others and, most importantly, realised that I had to love myself first before somebody else loves me.

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people.

Yoga has given me more compassion for my imperfections.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

As I love and approve of myself and others, my life gets better and better.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.