Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

When women love, they forgive everything...

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.

Patience and love can do anything.

Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

I hate nobody.