Thich Nhat Hanh (Nhat Hanh) Quotes

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Thich Nhat Hanh

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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Crazy

• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Same

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Reality

• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• The highest state is laughter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Laughter
  • State
  • Highest

• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Alone

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Free
  • Simple

• If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Food
  • Question

• City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Help
  • City

• The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Up
  • Find
  • Rights

• 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'

  

  Faizon Love
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • You

• To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Mischievous
  • Understatement

• Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Trade
  • Investment
  • France

• I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having 'too much' sex. At what point does a 'healthy' amount become 'too much'? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their cases the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such.

  

  Edmund White
  • Desire
  • Sex

• Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

  

  Bev Perdue
  • Up

• I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Words
  • Feeling

• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Death

• The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

  

  James Frey
  • Long
  • Book

• When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh