Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

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

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

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.

I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.

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

I don't think there's anybody in this world who should be required to make you feel good about yourself. Be happy on your own.

I don't feel like I have to prove anybody right or wrong.

I don't need a person to make me happy.

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

Happiness comes from within.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

The secret is to enjoy being you.

Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.

Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.