Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps.

A person who is able to be a living centre of peace in today's world and who is able to radiate that peace powerfully, ceaselessly, will be in a position to give needy mankind the benefit it lacks most and is in greatest need of.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.