Matthieu Ricard Quotes

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

My childhood was appalling.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

I don't fear no man. I've had everything done to me.

That's what 'Hell On Earth' was about: we felt that we were living in hell.

I lost my father when I was four, so maybe that was always in the background. Losing my brother kicked it into overdrive. When you get to such an intense place of suffering, you either have the choice to continue suffering or figure a way not to.

Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.