Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The miracle is to walk on the earth.

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Every day's a blessing, right? It's all in your control.

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.

The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.

For me... I feel like gratitude has really helped me to keep perspective on everything. The gratitude of doing what I get to do. The gratitude for my everyday life. The gratitude for simple things.

To see the Earth below you when we could take a break... to appreciate the environment around us was very special.

I think there's something about going on a hike and looking at a city view or looking at the ocean that brings you back to earth and kind of reminds you that your problems are quite small in retrospect.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.