“Your first love has no beginning or end.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh, Cultivating the Mind of Love, 2005

About Thích Nhất Hạnh

1926 – 2022

Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher and peace activist.

“We have to accept death; it makes life possible.”

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.”

“When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it.”

“Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.”

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”