Rory O'Malley Quotes

I'm a huge believer in you don't really need anybody to make you feel validated or make you feel secure. When you go to sleep at night, you're with yourself, and when you wake up, you're with yourself. Be happy, just alone, regardless if you're with somebody or not.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

I've learnt to be happy by myself.

I don't mean to be cocky, but if I'm never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

I don't need a person to make me happy.

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

We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That's pretty much it. And what I've learned is that unless I'm happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently - quickly.

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

I'm good where I am at this moment.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

I don't need the NFL to be happy or successful.

I guess I'd rather be comfortable and play well because I'm comfortable than to get recognition and play someplace where I wouldn't be comfortable and wouldn't enjoy myself.

I was able to start building my confidence and know that I don't need anybody to be happy.

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.

Self-esteem is crucial to how much or how little contentment you feel at the end of your life.