Michelle Obama Quotes

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

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.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

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.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

You can't live for other people, you know? You gotta live for yourself and better the people around you and make an impact.

I am sick to my stomach, just, all the time. The tools in my toolbox to address that are choosing jobs where I can be a full, complete person, where I have some agency and autonomy.

If you are not happy, you will never be able to give happiness to others.

I'm not going to give up enjoying my life and doing the things that I'm interested in doing.

I'm having a lot of fun playing myself out there on YouTube and showing who I am and getting to do projects that make me happy versus satisfy what people think a girl should be doing.

I'm focused on football and my career. No one really has to doubt that. Outside, I do other things that make me happy.

Even your favorite celebrities go through tough periods and have heartbreak. They must empower themselves with healthy choices, as do you!

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.