Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

You cannot make somebody else responsible for your own happiness.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.

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.

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

It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

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

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.