Matthieu Ricard Quotes
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.
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Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
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Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.
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That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
