Balance Quote by Matthieu Ricard

“Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.”

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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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