James A. Michener Quotes

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

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.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I've realised I can be happy.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

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

I feel good with who I am and what I made of myself.

I feel good about who I am.

I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.