Paulo Coelho Quotes

It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.

It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your being with others.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.

Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.