Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

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

I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

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

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Wit and Humor – if any difference, it is in duration – lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage – the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.