Peace Is Every Step Quotes:

If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.13, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

topic: Way, Start The Day, Peace Is Every Step

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

topic: Motivational, Buddhist, Children, Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Vision

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Moving On, Depression, Letting Go, Forward In Life, Fear Of The Unknown

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Views, Needs, Abandon, Peace Is Every Step

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A. J. Muste

source: Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

topic: Peace, Way, International Peace Day, Peacekeeping, Peace Sign

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Past, Gone, Moments, Buddhist Monk, Live Each Day

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.9, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

topic: Peace, Flower, Heart, Peace Is Every Step

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Buddhist, Dwelling, Breathing, Mind And Body, Peace Is Every Step

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.68, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

topic: Helping Others, Love Is, Deep Love, Peace Is Every Step

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.196, Harmony

topic: Peace, Buddhist, Truth, Spilling, Eye Opening

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Buddhist, Attitude, Positivity, Peace Is Every Step, Boost Self Esteem

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspiring, Horse, Promise, Peace Is Every Step

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

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Happiness, Peace, Buddhism, Peace Is Every Step

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Life, Buddhist, Morning, Funny Good Morning, Zen Master

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

topic: Love, Meaningful, Water, Buddhist Monk, Blaming Others

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

topic: Jobs, Yoga, Sacrifice, Diploma, Peace And Serenity

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Positive, Uplifting, Hope, Going Through Hard Times, Losing Faith

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

- Black Elk

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace, Spirit And Soul, Elders

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

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

topic: Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go, Letting Go Of Anger, Anger Inside

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying, Understanding Yourself, Self Healing

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

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Happiness, Letting Go, Giving, Happier Life, Letting Go Of Anger

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Peace, Life Changing, Joy, Peace And Serenity, Peace Is Every Step

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Friendship, True Love, Positivity, If You Love Someone, Peace Is Every Step

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Sacred, Action, Awareness, Peace Is Every Step

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Buddhist, Strong, Philosophy, Peace Is Every Step

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Peace, Truth, Yoga, International Peace Day, Non Violence

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Yoga, Missing, Moments, Peace Is Every Step, His Smile

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.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspirational, Time, Axes, Mindful Living, Peace Is Every Step

If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Flower, Peaceful, Benefits, Happy Family, Peace Is Every Step

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Peaceful, Cooperation, Illusion, Peace Is Every Step

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

- John Lennon

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Imagine That, Peace Love

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Peace, Military, Positive Attitude, Quaker, Peacefulness

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

- Bindi Irwin

source: Instagram post by Bindi Irwin @bindisueirwin, www.instagram.com. June 2, 2015.

topic: Needs, Accepting Yourself, Accepted, Self Healing, Inspiring Self Esteem

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Believe, Today, Bears, Going Through Hard Times, Losing Faith

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Inspiring, Peace, Military, Journey Of A Thousand Miles, International Peace Day

Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.

- Hafsat Abiola

source: "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book edited by Michael Collopy and Jason Gardner, 2000.

topic: Peace, Creating, Space, Peacekeeping, Peace Is Every Step

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

- Yehudi Menuhin

source: US Congress Congressional Record, V. 151, PT. 6, April 21, 2005 to May 5, 2005, p. 7471, 2009.

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Peace, Conductor, Peace Is Every Step

We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work 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.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Mom, Jobs, Hard Work, Diploma, Peace Is Every Step

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Love, Relationship, Buddhist, Love Everyone, Peace Is Every Step

Life is available only in the present moment.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Life, Buddhist, Meditation, Meditation Life, Meditation Mind

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Make Peace Not War, Inspirational Science

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

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Joy Of Living, Joy To The World

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Suffering, Enemy, Insight, Peace Is Every Step

Our own life has to be our message.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspiring, Peace, Truth, Peace Is Every Step

I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Worry, Dandelions, My Smile, Dandelion Seeds, Peace Is Every Step

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Peace Is Every Step