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Suffering Quotes by Matthieu Ricard
- The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
- Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our…
- Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace,…
- What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
- Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
- When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail…
- Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
- Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity…
- By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is…
- Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in…
- Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which…
- True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
- There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of…
- Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
- Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?
- We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task…
- Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in…
- Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus,…
- That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
More Suffering Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila