Quotes from Nhat Hanh

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

When we are present, life is also present.

To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

Only the present moment contains life.

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

My actions are my only true belongings.

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.

Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves.

In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.

In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.