Thich Nhat Hanh

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.

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

Our own life has to be our message.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

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

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Today is a king in disguise.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I don’t do quagmires.