Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.

If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.

Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

Be Love; there is nothing greater.

If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.

Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even.Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.

If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

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.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.

Open your heart. Don't be spiteful.

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.