Michael Cunningham Quotes

My well-being and my happiness is much more important to me than how much I can achieve.

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

When you feel complete, you don't need to get married, and you don't think about it.

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

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.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

The sanest thing in this world is love.

The things that make us happy make us wise.