Thich Nhat Hanh

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

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.

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

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

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!

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

It is better to walk alone, then with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.