Robert Southwell Quotes

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

I'm a simple kind of guy, so I just envision myself being happy.

As long as I'm happy, I don't care about accolades or anything else.

I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it's nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you.

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.

People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

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.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

I'm good where I am at this moment.