Eliza Doolittle Quotes

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except maybe - and this is going to sound really stupid - when I would listen to a song it would make me more excited than anything else could.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

If I can make those people happy, why can't I make myself happy.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.