Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

No one person is an island.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

I am a part of all that I have met.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.

You are because I am and I am because you are. We are one another's strength.

We are all part of one another.

Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

You and I are more than you and I because it's we.

Each the others world entire.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.