Alana Stewart Quotes

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

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.

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

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

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.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

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.

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.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

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.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

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.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

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

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.