Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.

I love my ability to generate empathy and compassion within myself and others.

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.

A woman can't teach a man how to be a man. But she can teach you how to nurture, how to care, how to love, and how to give.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

It's all about love.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.