Sheena Iyengar Quotes

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

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

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

I wouldn't mind removing all the mistakes I have made. That would be exhausting and take forever. Honestly, it's one of the spells of my life that has been the most perfect. Not because I did the job perfectly, because of course I did it very imperfectly, but because I enjoyed it so much. What would I change? I complain a lot. I whinge, I more or less communicate in levels of complaint so I wish sometimes I didn't just spend all my time saying, 'I'm working so hard, what do I get in return for this?'.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

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.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

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.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.