James Altucher Quotes

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel like as long as you don't hurt yourself or hurt anyone else. And things don't stop working in your body or your mind.

You can't let people control your feelings, or you'll live a pretty miserable life trying to change them.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

It doesn't matter if you have a valentine or not - just love yourself and be your own.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

Just do what makes you happy....sounds simple, doesn't it ?

What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn't matter what job I took, my mother's answer was, "Do what will make you happy." It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today's events will bring.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you're happy, you let us touch you.

Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself.

Happiness lies in your own hand

Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to give and receive is the trick. Perfect happiness is also a feeling, and the most amazing thing is that we were all born with the gift to make it happen in a heartbeat. Putting on certainmusic, reading something can make us feel a certain way. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.