Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

I've realised I can be happy.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your true potential and be happy.

Know your own happiness.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.

Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

William H. Macy has said, and I don't think I can quote him verbatim, but he's said many times before to not buy into the hype, the Hollywood appeal. To find yourself as a person, as a family man, to find your own happiness, and not to allow your ego to get in the way of your work.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.