Michael Ian Black Quotes

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

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.

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.

What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.

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

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

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

People have asked if I would go back to my 20s, and I'm like, "Only if I could hold onto the wisdom and the things that I've learned." But in reality, I don't think I'd want to even go back then. I'm so happy with where I'm at. My life is very content. Everything feels really good. I wouldn't want to change any of that. I'm happy for all the ups and the downs, and everything that has led me to where I am. I wouldn't want to lose any of that.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

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.

I'm fine with the life I have.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

I am happy with the roles I play.

I am happy in my own skin.

Whatever state you find yourself in, you're supposed to be content there.

Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

I don't ever think of myself as a dark person or a ruined person in any way. I just feel happy to be alive, and to be able to love.

I've had a fantastic career. I can sleep at night, and I'm happy with that.