Thich Nhat Hanh

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

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

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

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.

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

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.