Object Aspirations Quotes by Matthieu Ricard

Whatever you train, you change your brain.

— Matthieu Ricard

“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

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

— Matthieu Ricard

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

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

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

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

— Matthieu Ricard

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

— Matthieu Ricard

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

— Matthieu Ricard

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

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

“There is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting.”

— Matthieu Ricard