Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.