To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Interpretation
Loving oneself is foundational to finding joy in life and in making others happy.
This quote by Matthieu Ricard emphasizes the importance of self-love as a prerequisite to experiencing a fulfilling life. It suggests that true happiness stems from not only recognizing one's own worth but also extends to the joy we derive from bringing happiness to those around us, indicating interconnectedness between self and others in the pursuit of a joyful existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-esteem.
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.
We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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