Bethenny Frankel Quotes

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. - W.C. Fields

A lot of people feed their kids' tantrums with snacks and toys. Don't negotiate with terrorists.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

That is very good. People always want to be in a hurry. They want to control everything around them. Even the weather. They say, "What is the weather today?" The only thing they don't control is themselves, when that is the one thing they can control.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn’t seem like such an elusive prize.

Fear is a mindset, and so is the will to succeed.

The question isn’t ‘Is he normal?’ or ‘Are you normal?’ but ‘What is normal for us?

Choose, accept, adapt.

You do what you can, when you can, and only after you’ve had enough sleep.

Nothing is forever, so prioritize what matters today and worry about tomorrow tomorrow. It’s not selfish, it’s survival.

You have to give yourself a break. You can’t come together with anyone else if you can’t even get yourself together.

When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

Don’t paralyze yourself worrying that you might not do the right thing that will lead you to the fulfillment of all your dreams for the rest of your life—that’s just too much pressure. You’ll scare yourself into doing nothing.

No matter what you’ve done, even if you regret it, even if you don’t know what the hell to do next, every single thing that happens to you has the potential to open new doors. It happened for a reason—and it’s still taking you somewhere, even if you can’t see it right now.

The thing about childhood noise is that if you let it take over, it can obliterate your true nature. The best qualities in you have always been there, but when you get stuck in the past and make your pain your identity, then that’s what you become… To have a future, you have to let the past be past.

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman. —Mexican proverb

If they hurt you, you don’t need them in your life,” he said. “Family is about love, not blood.

And so what if it takes a while? What’s the hurry? Great things take time, and your life is a project.

You choose happiness. You don’t wait for it to choose you.

I realize that if you work hard, hold onto your dreams and plug away going forward, you will get to your destination. All roads lead to Rome. You may be diverted, distracted and feel defeated, but if you move forward, you will get there.

Bethenny is a huge stickler for organization, so I can’t drop the ball. One thing that really helps me is FollowUpThen.com. Any time we get an e-mail that needs a follow-up later, whether it’s in two weeks or two hours, I just send it to 2weeks@followupthen.com, or 2hours@followupthen.com, or whenever it is I need to remember it, and the app will send me the e-mail right when I need to deal with it. It’s saved me a thousand times.

yesterday in the airport I spent ten minutes expounding on the virtues of Bethenny Frankel from the New York season of the Real Housewives until I realized the person next to me had been talking about a book by Viktor Frankl.

Whether you want to be a better mother or a better CEO, to find the love of your life or make a million dollars, to finish a marathon or lose twenty pounds or get your degree or finally find your true passion in life, it doesn’t matter. You can turn any piece of clay into a masterpiece, and you are the piece of clay. If your path is to get healthy or be a better citizen or love your family more or just gain a certain degree of self-awareness, come from a place of yes and you can do it.

Men want to conquer the world, but with you, they need to be built up, supported, adored, and made to feel manly. If you do that, then they will worship you like the goddess you are. If you beat them down and refuse to build them up, if you nag at them constantly for everything they do to disappoint you and never show them how much you appreciate what they do that you love, they will eventually drift away from you—if not physically, then emotionally.

Bethenny Frankel.

Happiness takes work, and celebrations don’t just happen all on their own, but you can do it.

Celebration is life’s frosting: isn’t frosting the very best part of the cake?

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing.

Take it or leave it—you take the good and build on it; you leave the bad, in favor of a new idea. Most important, you keep moving forward, never settling for what doesn’t work.

It’s never about what it’s about, it is?

It’s never about what it’s about, is it?

All I ask of you is to look back and see. Seeing is the first step. When you see what didn’t work, even what hurt and harmed you, that’s when you can break the chain. Your childhood noise tries to hold you in a pattern. Be your own woman. Coming from a place of yes helps you step into something new.

If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.

By owning what you do, you’ll always be able to maintain your integrity.

The best part about owning it is that when you accept what really is, you stop living in the past or in some dream world and start living in the real world, where you can actually do something about what’s wrong. It enables action and change, whereas when you deny the reality of your situation, you stagnate. You can’t get to the breakthrough place where you see what’s true and recognize what you need to change. Owning it is a way to release your demons and come out on the other side.

It’s about love, in the end, the ultimate message at the end of the journey to yourself.

If you can stay calm, play your own game, and appreciate yourself, then you will find time to enjoy the little things in your life. Work when you have to work, then let yourself play.