Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

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

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.

Our own life has to be our message.

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

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

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.