Matthieu Ricard Quotes

I know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

Ultimately, it's one's upbringing, consciousness and circumstances that decide the path you'll choose.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.