Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful.

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

A quiet mind cureth all.

A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

I try to meditate.

I am genuinely a peaceful person now.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.