Erin Foster Quotes

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

When I was growing up, you had to conform and do the same thing that everyone else was doing. I would just go home and make music and be able to make myself happy, but I know that's more of a challenge for some people.

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.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.

For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

Success to me is my friends and family are healthy and happy and I feel good about myself at the end of the night and I can sleep at night.

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.