Mary Balogh Quotes

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

We are ourselves our happiness.

Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.

All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

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

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.

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.

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

If you're happy on your own you are going to be okay.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

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

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

At the end of the day, if you are not happy, no one can make you happy.

I don't need a person to make me happy.

Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.

You cannot make somebody else responsible for your own happiness.

A lot of people, they think, 'Oh, I'm only going to be happy when I find a special person who is going to make me happy.' No. In life, you have to be happy with yourself first, number one.

I've learned to find happiness within myself.

Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.