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Nhat Hanh Quotes about Suffering

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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Uplifting, Thinking, Suffering

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.

Suffering

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

Suffering, Way, Path

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.5, Harmony

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Understanding, Suffering, Lack Of Understanding

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

Enemy, Suffering, Insight

When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.

Suffering, Negative, Inferiority

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

People, Listening, Suffering

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

Anger, Suffering, Trying

Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.55, Penguin

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Suffering, Impermanence, Permanent

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.132, Harmony

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

Appreciate, When You Love Someone, Suffering

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

Empathy, Listening, Suffering

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

Suffering, Needs, Helping

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

Suffering, Sorrow, Needs

Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.190, Souvenir Press

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

Compassion, Suffering, Able

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

Buddhist, Suffering, Mutual Understanding

Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Understanding, Listening, Suffering

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.

Compassion, Enemy, Suffering

Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.78, Penguin

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

Suffering, Trying, Relief

Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.25, Penguin

Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is not there, the right cannot be there. The same is true with suffering and happiness, good and evil.

Evil, Support, Suffering

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Adversity, Love Is, Suffering

Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.39, Parallax Press

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.

People, Suffering, Doe

Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.22, Penguin

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Suffering, Backgrounds

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

Views, Suffering, Foundation

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

Hurt, People, Suffering

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with bell hooks, plumvillage.org. January 1, 2000.

People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.

Believe, People, Suffering

Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.2, Penguin

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