Thích Nhất Hạnh
Thích Nhất Hạnh Quotes about Happiness
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.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited, you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
So many conditions of happiness are available, you don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.
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 possession—we cannot be free.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Happiness is a function of compassion. If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness.
The most basic condition for happiness is freedom. Here we do not mean political freedom, but freedom from the mental formations of anger, despair, jealousy, and delusion... As long as these poisons are still in our heart, happiness cannot be possible.
Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just be.
Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.
Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.
You have to realize that happiness is not something you find at the end of the road. You have to understand that it is here, now.
Happiness does not come from consumption of things.