Tara Stiles Quotes

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

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

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 define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

You can have everything in the world, but if you aren't happy within yourself, it's not worth it.

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

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.

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.

I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

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

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

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.

Happiness can't start with external stuff, whether that's money or success or your body.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I'm happy with the person I become.

If you have everything you want in life, including money, fame and being asked out on dates by 20 cute boys, and you are still unhappy then you have to go deep within yourself to fix the issue.

I never felt I had questions or needed answers or had a part of me that was missing.

I know what's good enough for me. I know what makes me happy.