Brian Weiss Quotes

I don't need a person to make me happy.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

You cannot make somebody else responsible for your own happiness.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

I don't think there's anybody in this world who should be required to make you feel good about yourself. Be happy on your own.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

I pay my own bills. I feel my own pain.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

I don't allow Hollywood to define my joy, my happiness, and my peace because you'll be screwed. You have to be very careful.

There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right.