Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.