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.
Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
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