Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

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

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

If you’re not happy single, your not gonna be happy married.

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

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.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

I needed to take a break from acting, because I really idolized it. So I came off from it, and I went on a journey to discover my relationship with God, and I became a Christian. It really just gave me so much love and light within myself. I felt secure, like I didn't need validation from anyone else, or getting a part.