Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.

If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

I meditate at airports because those are the places where I’m extremely tense, and I often meditate while I’m walking down the street. I have a thought and become aware of that thought and thereby create another level of awareness.

Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.

I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

Find patience in the breath of life.

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.