Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.

Spirituality is a great bent of mind. It gives peace and hope to me.

Life is all about the spirit.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it."