Harry Chapin Quotes

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

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

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.

You have to be satiated with just being authentically yourself at the end of the day.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

I have no issues with my identity.

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

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

It's really about being pleased with yourself.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I've realised I can be happy.

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

I'm still learning to love myself.

What it's like to be me? You know, it's good to be me. My life is good.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.