Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.

Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a little brotherhood.

Let us reach out our hand to our brother and heal the great divide.

we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone. We don’t think about it often, but everything is connected, and we need to restore our connections to a healthy state. Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

There are many doors to the heart.

Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.