Quote

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Nhat Hanh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nhat Hanh
True
Excitement
Many
Peaceful
Think
Buddhism
Thinking
Excited
People
Based
Happiness
Peace

More quotes by Nhat Hanh

Image
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation
Nhat Hanh
Image
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
Nhat Hanh
Image
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.
Nhat Hanh
Image
You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.
Nhat Hanh
Image
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
Nhat Hanh
Image
To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.
Nhat Hanh
Image
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.
Nhat Hanh
Image
When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?
Nhat Hanh
Image
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
Nhat Hanh
Image
It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering
Nhat Hanh
Image
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Happiness is not an individual matter.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive they are just walking corpses.
Nhat Hanh
Image
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.
Nhat Hanh