Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

I don't know how I would have gotten through this life without someone to really love me and I love them, him, and them [family]. It's forgiving. Love is very forgiving to one another and your friends and it's a powerful, powerful emotion and it's my favorite emotion in life. Now, write that down and read it and remember it.

What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

We tend to rush through life, generally. We don't appreciate the people around us, the relationships we have, or anything.

No matter what else, we have love. Always love.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.