Neal Shusterman Quotes

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

When you feel complete, you don't need to get married, and you don't think about it.

Every person can reach a full life.

I want to live a fulfilling life.

My well-being and my happiness is much more important to me than how much I can achieve.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

I want people to enjoy reaching out and making their dreams come true.

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.