Woodrow Wilson Quotes

If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

If you're happy, ultimately, that's all that matters.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

You know when you're doing something right and when you're doing something wrong. As long as you feel like you're doing something right, and you're getting rewarded, then you're successful. But, if you're judging it on, Well, if I had that, I'd be successful - that doesn't work. I think doing what you love is success. Pretty cheesy. But it's true.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

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.

Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don't have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things you may collect, perhaps they may increase your worries, your troubles, but happiness will not increase because of them. Certainly unhappiness will increase with them, but they have no relation to an increase in your happiness.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

True happiness lies within you.

I am deeply fulfilled by all that I do.