Matt Sydal Quotes

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

I am happy with what I've done.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

If I had all the spotlight, that would be great. I'd be happy with that. If I didn't have the spotlight, that would be great as well.

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?

I think there comes a time when you start dropping expectations. Because the world doesn't owe you anything, and you don't owe the world anything in return. Things, feelings, are a very simple transaction. If you get it, be grateful. If you don't, be alright with it.

If I never competed again, it wouldn't bother me. I don't care.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.

I feel really good about the things I've accomplished in my life, and I don't want to look younger.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

My body of work means nothing to me.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.