Thich Nhat Hanh

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

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.

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.

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

I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. While he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

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

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.