Janet Fitch Quotes

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

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.

I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

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.

'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just about reaching a place in myself.

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

It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

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

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

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

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.