Maya Hawke Quotes

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

Know your own happiness.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn't matter what job I took, my mother's answer was, "Do what will make you happy." It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today's events will bring.

The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

Throughout my life, I've learned to make choices that make me happy and make sense for me. Even my husband is happier when I'm happy.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

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

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.