Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

When I first began learning yoga, I found it really hard because I couldn't clear my mind for the meditative part of it, but then after a few weeks it became easier and I could see how it began to change my body. I became more flexible and more relaxed and at peace with my environment. I love yoga and I encourage all my friends to practise it.

I love the way yoga makes me feel and sharing that with other people so they can feel the way I do.

Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease.

Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.

I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.

I really believe that breath, in and of itself... can become the ultimate self-healing tool.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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

To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

Yoga always made me feel really good about myself.

You have to do what makes you feel good, but for me, it has to come from that spiritual side first.