Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now.

Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

I've just learned to enjoy every moment for what it is and take it all in.

I always try to live in the moment.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far