Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.

Optimism is a huge help when it comes to health.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down, you're going to have negative results. But if you feel like you're going to make it through and you have positive thoughts, you have a much better chance to survive and be successful and happy.

Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

It's really important to always have a positive mind-set, no matter what people have been through.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

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

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons.

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

The healthiest response to life is joy.