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

• 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

• My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, 'Those things that hurt instruct!' I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • World
  • American

• I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Community
  • Peace
  • Creativity

• We have a decision to make every hour of every day, and that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy now.

  

  Amy Goodman
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Experience

• We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Iran
  • Nuclear
  • Axes

• You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Know
  • For Her

• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Wonder
  • Sea

• 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