Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

I am constantly nice to people. Sometimes they don't deserve it.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.