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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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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the…
— William Jennings Bryan
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I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
— Claude Chabrol
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The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer…
— James Allen
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Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with…
— Michael Jackson
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux…
— Aeschylus
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which…
— Simone Weil
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By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great…
— Walter Russell
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what…
— Thomas Huxley
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There may be different channels of approach, yes. For not all peoples walked in the field when the wheat was ripe. Neither…
— Edgar Cayce
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An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than…
— Denis Hayes
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