Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Happiness is a state of mind.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.

Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.

If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness.

Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Your state of mind is everything.

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

If you are really feeling happy, you are feeling happy even if the whole world contradicts you. If the whole world agrees that you are not happy, then too it doesn't matter. Your happiness is real. It cannot be canceled by anybody's opinion. But if your happiness is unreal, it can be canceled by anybody. Even a small child can cancel it. You will be constantly looking towards people. You will be smiling, trying to show that you are happy so that they can say, 'Yes. You are very happy. You look very happy.'

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.