Russell Simmons Quotes

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Seeing what you want from life from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, is the most important thing.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to...be, and decide, Who You Really Are.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.

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

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

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.

If you want to be happy, be.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.