Matthieu Ricard Quotes

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

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

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

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

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

Positivity is an inside job that makes the outside look a lot better.

Your state of mind is everything.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

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

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

Happiness lies in your own hand

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.