Raoul Vaneigem Quotes

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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.

Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!

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 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.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

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

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

I've realised I can be happy.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

I'm still far away from the person I want to be, but whoever this is for now, she's all right.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.

It has taken all of my 20s and most of my 30s to get to this point where I am very happy with who I am.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

I've come to the conclusion that we're all responsible for our own happiness and the happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. I'm a big believer in positive thinking.