Ana Ortiz Quotes

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

It has taken all of my 20s and most of my 30s to get to this point where I am very happy with who I am.

When I was in my 20s, I don't think I knew what happiness was. Now, it's about getting to a place in your life when you're confident in the person you are. It took me a long time to get there.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I've realised I can be happy.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.

I don't regret anything, because I feel better every year, and if I'd done something different, maybe I wouldn't. I'm more of a whole person, the older I get.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

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

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.