Alexandra Stoddard Quotes

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I look great because I'm happy.

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

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

One thing that I think most people don't notice is that if you're sitting around telling yourself, 'I want to be happier,' there's a kind of subconscious message that you're also telling yourself at the same time, which is, 'What I have is not enough.'

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Be happy or die.

Happiness is an inside job.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

It's important to enjoy who you are and to appreciate things around you.

I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.

You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, 'I feel good, I have my health, and I'm so blessed.' That's the way I choose to look at it.

Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.

I always find a reason to be happy before I sleep. For me, happiness is a choice that is in your hands.

I want to love myself and love my life.

Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.

If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.