“I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.” Quote by Nhat Hanh
“The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.” IfsShouldTogetherMovingUnderstandingCommunityLove IsHarmonyDaily LifeLife TogetherAway From LoveSangha Author:Nhat Hanh
“The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves.” ThinkingReasonMightActionUnderstandingLosesLove IsObjectsHarmonyMatureSlips Author:Nhat Hanh
“We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.” WorldNeedsShouldWellsAsksCapableNeed Love Author:Nhat Hanh
“Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are we treating ourselves with enough joy and tenderness and peace? Or are we feeding ourselves with toxins that we get from the market - the spiritual, intellectual, entertainment market?” WayEnoughBodySpiritualJoyDrinkIntellectualEntertainmentTendernessFeedingToxins Author:Nhat Hanh
“Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.” MeanCommunityCapableOur Community Author:Nhat Hanh
“In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.” WorldLooksMomentsAbleCompassionOur World Author:Nhat Hanh
“We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world.” WorldWayLooksMayDoneMomentsAbleViolentPeacefulThat MomentRelaxed Author:Nhat Hanh
“There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.” RealSelfSeparation Author:Nhat Hanh
“You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.” DoeEasyLove YouProfoundHave CourageCourage To Love Author:Bell Hooks
“Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.” WritingFeelingsSchoolCultureNamesForgetLove IsStreetsTaughtKingsRememberedIrrelevantLuther Author:Bell Hooks
