Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.

Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life's daily frustrations.

Going for a walk is always helpful for me. I also love gratitude exercises.

It's important for everyone - working moms especially - to find moments to ground themselves and connect with their own breath.

Go slowly, breathe and smile.

Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.

Real beauty is created when you are feeling good inside, whether that means being healthy, feeling confident or just wearing your favorite scent.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.

For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred.

I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

I've been doing a lot of yoga because it really centres me - mentally as well as physically. It's just an hour of my day that's always positive, and I always come out in a better mood.

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

Its not just about competition: it's my life, my lifestyle. So I train every day, and I feel very good, because sometimes training is like meditations for me; it's a good escape to me to the problems for everything.

We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness.

Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

I love the way yoga makes me feel and sharing that with other people so they can feel the way I do.

Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.