60+ DEEP Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes on LOVE

Thich Nhat Hanh, the father of mindfulness, His contribution on knowledge is substantial. Thich Nhat Hanh taught us the real meaning of love and how to live life to the fullest.

In this article we have included the best quotes on love by Thich Nhat Hanh. His thoughts about love will definitely give you some new perspective.

What is love?

Love is treating your heart with a great deal of tenderness, with understanding, love, and compassion. If you cannot treat your own heart this way, how can you treat your partner with understanding and love?
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BEST 10

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.
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We have to restore the meaning of the word ‘love.’ We have been using it in a careless way.
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence
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If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
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To love is to recognize ; to be loved is to be recognized by the other
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When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
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The word ‘love’ is a beautiful word. We have to restore its meaning.
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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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TRUE LOVE

In true love, there is no pride.
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We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love.
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In true love, you attain freedom.
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A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it’s not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person
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Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.
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True love is a love without possessiveness. You love and still you are free, and the other person is also free.
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The first element of true love is loving kindness. The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness. You can be the sunshine for another person.
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Every one of us is trying to find our true home. Some of us are still searching. Our true home is inside, but it’s also in our loved ones around us. When you’re in a loving relationship, you and the other person can be a true home for each other.
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FAKE LOVE

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
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If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
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If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
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Love has no meaning without understanding
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The kind of love that has no joy is not true love. If both parties cry every day, then that’s not true love. There must be joy and freedom and understanding in love.
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If love doesn’t make us happy, it’s not love; it’s something else. Love is a wonderful thing.
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To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.
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If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
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ANGER

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight… I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.
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Anger is an organic thing, like love. Anger can become love
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SELF LOVE IS IMPORTANT

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
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Self-love is the foundation for your capacity to love the other person.
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When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love. Of course, first you have to have trust, respect, and confidence in yourself.
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Be a friend to yourself. If you are a true friend to yourself, you can be a true friend to a loved one. A romantic crush is short-lived, but friendship and loving kindness can last very long and continue to grow.
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When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love. That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.
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DEEP

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
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Love is the foundation of happiness.
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It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
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A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
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The more happiness and love that can be reborn the better, because it will make this world more beautiful and kind. Therefore you and I should be living our weeks, days and hours in order to be reborn constantly as happiness, love and kindness.
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Love is not just the intention to love, but the capacity to reduce suffering, and offer peace and happiness.
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There’s deep thirst to be loved and to love.
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Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.
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Understanding and love aren’t two separate things, they’re just one.
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We will not just say, “I love him very much,” but instead, “I will do something so that he will suffer less.” The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person’s suffering.
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RICH vs lOVE

Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.
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LEARN TO LOVE FIRST…..!

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.
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LEARNING LOVE If our parents didn’t love and understand each other, how are we to know what love looks like? There aren’t courses or classes in love. If the grown-ups know how to take care of each other, then the children who grow up in this environment will naturally know how to love, understand, and bring happiness to others.
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Learn to love, enjoy and embrace what you have in the here and now. That’s all you really need to be happy.
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All love may begin by being passionate, especially for younger people. But in the process of living together, they have to learn and practice love, so that selfishness–the tendency to possess–will diminsh,
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UNDERSTANDING IN LOVE

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.
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When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry.
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If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
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So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
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If you want your loved ones to be happy, you must learn to understand their sufferings and their aspirations.
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MEANINGFUL LOVE QUOTES

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.
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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.
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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
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Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
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The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
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We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
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With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
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Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change
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Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This is the real message of love.
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