Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

I have inner peace; I have accomplished a great deal.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

My ambition is to be happy.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

I'm happy doing what I do.

I am happy with the roles I play.

I'm happy and satisfied with my accomplishments. I sleep well at night.

I truly believe happiness has a different meaning for everyone. But I also believe that the sense of self is the key to one's happiness.

I'm happy with the decision I've taken. I get up in the morning, and I'm happy, and that is what is important for me in the end. I greet my family, my brothers, my parents. Me being happy doesn't have a price.

You can be happy when you feel happy from inside, and when you have worked, you are your happiest.

I always tell everybody that I feel I am living my dream.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.