Natascha McElhone Quotes

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Whether you are happy or miserable is completely a choice.

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

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.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

At the end of the day, if you are not happy, no one can make you happy.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

I think operating in a mode of fear, and operating from a mode of fear, is not going to get us anywhere, as a people, or me, as a person. So I don't operate from that place.

I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

I have written and said countless times it is not what happens to you in life that makes a difference! It is how we react to what happens to us in life that creates our history and - more importantly - our future!

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Where you now stand is a result of thoughts and feelings that you have offered before, but where you are going is a result of your perspective of where you now stand.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.