Srikumar Rao Quotes

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

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

I have the greatest life in the world because I created it.

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

You cannot make somebody else responsible for your own happiness.

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.

I don't care about anything but what I want to do. You can't worry about what else is happening out there. You have to be true to yourself.

I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.

You can give them the opportunity to thrive, but when it comes to finding happiness or success, kids are really on their own.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

The will of man is his happiness.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

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.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'