Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Peace is the most effective way for nations to attain prosperity and happiness

Love each other because you are brethren from one father and mother. If you love one another, then God will be with you and will submit the enemy under your hands and you will live peacefully. In case, however, you live hatefully in feuds and dissension, then you will destroy yourselves.

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

What we need is anger management right now …. The reaction right now is just anger. We tried to get even. But we shouldn’t try to get even—we should try and reconcile.

Justice is one of the core elements towards reconciliation and sustainable peace.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.