Lindsey Wixson Quotes

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

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.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want to do - I'm free - isn't that the greatest prize?

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

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.

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

I have this amazing life.