Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

Our own life has to be our message.

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

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

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.

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 words have wings, but fly not where we would.

I’ll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they’ve stopped caring.

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Not even the Devil can call a woman “Slut” if he is not able to make her fall in love.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Men who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep. Who dare while others fly.They build a nation’s pillars deep. And lift them to the sky.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.