Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

Aikido is the spirit of loving protection for all beings.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Peace is our passion.

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.