Mark Twain Quotes

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

You've got to be happy in your own skin.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

I'm the most chill person I know...I'm happy with myself...I'm not perfect, but I'm cool with that.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

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

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I came to love, I came into my own.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.