Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

Matthieu Ricard

• Pain
• Suffering
• Smile
• Empathy

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• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

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• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

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• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

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• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

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• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

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• In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

  

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• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

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• Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.

  

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• Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

  

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• The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.

  

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• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

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• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  

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• As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

  

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• I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

  

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• Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

  

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• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  

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• Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.

  

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• I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'

  

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• I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

  

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• I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.

  

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• Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

  

  Matthieu Ricard
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Smile