Elyn Saks Quotes

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.

I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.

Every breath I take becomes deeper, and I become more confident of myself without my crutches. The lies I've filled my body and soul with aren't needed anymore. They're not welcome. I choose to live, not just exist.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

I truly believe the eating disorder is gone. The discovery of what was at the bottom of it lifted me, and I walked into a different phase of my life.

When you watch 'Doom Patrol,' you'll see most of the characters are trying to run away from their feelings and their emotions, and the minute they take a second and look at themselves face to face, that's when things can actually get resolved and get one step closer to peace.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.