Nhat Hanh Quotes About Take Care

Quotes about: Take Care

• When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Meaningful, Positive Thinking

• Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Love Is

  "This Is The Buddha's Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

• Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Dark, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

• To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

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  Home, Mean, Care

  ""This Is The Buddha's Love" Melvin McLeod interviews Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

• In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right here and now. it is much safer than placing our hope in the future. If we cling to the idea of hope in the future, we might not notice the peace and joy that are available in the present moment. The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Buddhism, Ideas

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.179, Penguin

• If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Compassion, Irritation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

• If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.

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  People, Foundation, Care

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

  Nhat Hanh

  Home, Feelings, Perception

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 01, 2016

• The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Future, Care, Way

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is going to crumble. If countries of Third World cannot pay their debts, you are going to suffer here in the North. If you do not take care of the Third World, your well-being is not going to last, and you will not be able to continue living in the way you have been much longer. It is leaping out at us already. You cannot leave the job to the governments or the political scientists alone. You have to do it yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Country, Jobs, Mean

• 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

  Mother, Baby, Pain

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 22, 2013

• The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

  Nhat Hanh

  Substance, Care, Way

• To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Care

• You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden and master the art of gardening. In each one of us there are flowers and there is also garbage. The garbage is the anger, fear, discrimination, and jealousy within us. If you water the garbage, you will strengthen the negative seeds. If you water the flowers of compassion, understanding, and love, you will strengthen the positive seeds. What you grow is up to you.

  Nhat Hanh

  Art, Buddhist, Flower

• Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Baby, Thinking, Doctors

• If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

  Nhat Hanh

  Future, Care, Moments

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.10, Harper Collins

• Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love Is, Care, Capacity

  "This Is The Buddha's Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.pbs.org. June 3, 2010.

• Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.

  Nhat Hanh

  Garden, Past, Order

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions”, p.51, Penguin

• Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.

  Nhat Hanh

  Baby, Roots, Practice

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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