Thich Nhat Hanh

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?

Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.