Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. — 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
There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy… — 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… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them…it is not the magnitude… — 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
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each… — 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
![“You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.” quote by Matthieu Ricard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c46/matthieu-ricard-4004_add_you-get-something-in-your-body-that-is-t_1158842.jpg)
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