"Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them."

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Source : Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

Matthieu Ricard

#Broken Quotes #Profound Quotes #Serenity Quotes

“I started making movies in my late 20s, that time in an artist's career that often sees artists just imitating things that he or she loves. I just wanted to be great like L'Age d'Or vintage BuÃ±uel. I wanted to be Busby Berkeley, for crying out loud! I wanted to have chorus girls stomping their heels in my casting office. I wanted to be Erich Von Stroheim monogramming underwear for extras. So I started off my career doing that, and that was fun, but I realised I wasn't very good at it.”
“I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.”
“Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?”

Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”
“I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.”
“Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct...”
“As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.”
“I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.”
“To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.”

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