Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

It is not the mind, but the heart that makes free.

If I continue to be bitter, then I am still in jail.

To me, love means being free of your own bondage and connecting to another soul.

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.

To forgive another from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between us. As long as we do not forgive we pull them with us, or worse, as a heavy load. The great temptation is to cling in anger to our enemies & then define ourselves as being offended & wounded by them. Forgiveness, therefore, liberates not only the other but also ourselves. It is the way to the freedom of the children of God.

When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.