Michael Winter Quotes

If in any case I did find error in that which I have collected from my natural understanding, I should count it good fortune, since I enjoy life, and endeavour to pass it not in weeping and sighing, but in peace, joy, and cheerfulness, and from time to time climb thereby a step higher.

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.

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.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

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.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

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.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

I can live with myself.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

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

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!