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Matthieu Ricard has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere…
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle…
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
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Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each…
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy…
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What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this…
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious…
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain…
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity…
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We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the…
— Tom Brady
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is…
— Carlos Castaneda
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There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
— Matthieu Ricard
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
— Immanuel Kant
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
— Blaise Pascal
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The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what…
— John Jakes
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
— Immanuel Kant
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The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
— Unknown Author
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Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness
— Immanuel Kant
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The reason why we are here is not to please others, but to make ourselves happy in a way we like.
— Gengchun Tan
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If life was easy, we would be bored, that's why we are faced with challenges everyday, so that we can work to…
— Anurag Prakash Ray
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