The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Various studies indicate that with age people gain more wisdom about life and are somehow happier than younger people. This is especially… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day.… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness:… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“May every moment of my life and of the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!” — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives.” — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These]… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“There is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting.” — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
