Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy.
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.
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