Matthieu Ricard Quotes

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

As I get older, I get happier.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

The happiest people are the most giving people

Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

I've followed freedom for a long time and I finally feel I've got more of it. People talk about the money that I've given up and the money that I've lost. But the knowledge and the wisdom that I've gotten from this experience is priceless.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well