Charles Bukowski Quotes

I am happy with what I've done.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

This is how I am. I'm happy with my friends, my family, my job.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I don't know if I would want to come back as anything but me. I feel really satisfied. I don't really want to be anyone else. I just feel like I've gotten everything I signed up for as me. I'm happy as me.

I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

I'm what I am and I'm what I'm not. And I'm sure happy with what I've got. I live to love and laugh a lot. And that's all I need.

Success is to be Happy in Life.

I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.