Happiness Quote by Matthieu Ricard

““According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.””

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Whatever you train, you change your brain.

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“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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The happy have whole days,

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

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I've got nothing to do today but smile.

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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

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