Matthieu Ricard Quotes

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

I don't believe my own hype, I just take each day as it comes. And I always feel blessed.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Be content to seem what you really are.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I never want to be pretentious.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

I don't think of myself all the time.