Michelle Obama Quotes

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

The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

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.

Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

My dad is the type of person that says yes to life, and to the adventures it throws at you. Because of that, he never forced me into a particular career, or had wild expectations for me; his concern was simply that I was fulfilled and happy.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels good. And I just knew that was the place I needed, wanted to be.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

Know your own happiness.

You have to think about yourself and think about where you are and if you're happy. If you feel good and you feel happy, then that's the path you should be on.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful

If I were single and had my career, I'd be happy. You have to be happy with what you're doing.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.