Clayton Christensen Quotes

I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your true potential and be happy.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

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.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I've got to be happy with myself when this ride is over.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

It has taken all of my 20s and most of my 30s to get to this point where I am very happy with who I am.