Nicole Richie Quotes

I just do what makes me happy.

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

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

I always felt more comfortable doing what I wanted to do. Because at the end of the day, I'll be happy.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

I don't think about other people. They are not walking in my shoes. They are not paying my bills. What makes me happy is when I do what I like to do, for me.

Satisfaction comes from the inside out, so people keep gravitating from things externally to try to fill something - get a man to complete them, get money to complete them, get a job to complete them and still find themselves frustrated.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

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.

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

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. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.