Dev Hynes Quotes

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to give and receive is the trick. Perfect happiness is also a feeling, and the most amazing thing is that we were all born with the gift to make it happen in a heartbeat. Putting on certainmusic, reading something can make us feel a certain way. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.

If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.