Nhat Hanh Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Yoga, Land
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  Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mood in 2 Minutes" by Daniela Tempesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

• Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

• The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Heart, Positivity

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.77, Penguin

• Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Letting Go, Anger

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

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

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Peace, Buddhism

• There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Buddhist, Inspiration

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

• We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Jobs, Yoga

• Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Yoga, Home

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2010.

• Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Peace, Morning

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Smile, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

• When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Healing, Heart

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Running, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.11, Sounds True

• Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Peace, Practice

• The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Trust, Confidence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Letting Go, Walking Meditation

• 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

  Happiness, Giving, Serenity

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.440, Parallax Press

• We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Heart, Compassion

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.163, Parallax Press

• As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

• When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Gratitude, Grateful

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Two Treasures: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening and True Happiness”, p.22, Parallax Press

• There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs is not the perfect idea, that there are many aspects that do not correspond to the reality of what is there, the real need and aspirations of the people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Country, Real

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.76, Penguin

• When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Breathing, Inner Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries”, p.440, Parallax Press

• Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Real, Inner Peace

• Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, World, Steps

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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