Cameron Monaghan Quotes

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

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.

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

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.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

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 try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I'm not tired of who I am. That would be sad!

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

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.

My ego has been in check for a long time.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Know your own happiness.