Quotes from Nhat Hanh

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.

If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love

To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair.

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Our own life has to be our message.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.