Thich Nhat Hanh

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

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

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

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

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.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.