Daily Inspiration Quote by Channing Pollock

“Happiness” gets treated like a destination, a permanent address you can buy your way into or hustle your way toward. Pollock flips it into transit: a “way station,” not the end of the line. The phrase is modest on purpose. It shrinks happiness from a grand life goal into a temporary, almost accidental pause between extremes. That’s the sting and the comfort. If you don’t feel happy all the time, you’re not broken; you’re just moving.

The subtext is a critique of both scarcity and excess. “Too little” isn’t only poverty or misfortune; it’s deprivation in the broader sense - not enough time, attention, dignity, rest. “Too much” is the other trap: saturation, indulgence, noise, constant winning that turns into numbness. Pollock implies that pleasure has a tipping point, and that the good life can be ruined from either direction. The line quietly rejects the American-era fantasy (especially in show business) that more applause, more money, more visibility automatically equals more joy.

As an actor and playwright, Pollock would have watched people chase intensity for a living: drama onstage, drama offstage, and the strange emptiness that follows a standing ovation. Calling happiness a way station reads like backstage wisdom: the calm you catch between rehearsals and performances, between wanting and having, between the hunger that motivates you and the glut that dulls you. It works because it refuses sentimentality while still offering a humane map: aim for balance, expect motion, savor the stop when it comes.