Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

I've got a war in my mind

His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I love the storm and fear the calm.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.

Time flies when you're on an emotional roller coaster.

I do not have a very peaceful life.

I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

The brazen throat of war.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.