Ari Graynor Quotes

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

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.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

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

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

You learn to accept your own reality.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.