Susan Vreeland Quotes

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.

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

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I've realised I can be happy.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

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.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Know thyself.

One of the greatest things about getting older as an actor is that you settle into who you are and you don't begrudge everyone else what they have.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

When I was in my 20s, I don't think I knew what happiness was. Now, it's about getting to a place in your life when you're confident in the person you are. It took me a long time to get there.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

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

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

I have no issues with my identity.

It's easy to forget who you are.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

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.