James Ransone 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.

Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy.

Happiness can't start with external stuff, whether that's money or success or your body.

I'm not really concerned with the outer success.

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

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

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.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

I don't need the NFL to be happy or successful.

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.

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

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.

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

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'