Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'

I'm a pretty good listener.

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there's more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.

Women are better than man at valuing relationships and much better than men in terms of contributing towards a relationship.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.