Matthieu Ricard Quotes

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently, and your life will change.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Perception can be changed

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

When we shift our perception, our experience changes.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore.

If the glass is half-full or half-empty, it remains the same glass.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

A thought will color a world for us.