Alexis Ren Quotes

I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

I'm always so hard on myself.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.

My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.

I have a lot of self-hatred and a lot of self-anger and a lot of things that I need to let go of.

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

You know, I suffer kind of from survivor's guilt. It's like you suffer from success because you feel like - why me? Why am I so special? What makes me so different from the next man and why am I able to achieve these things that this person can't? Prayer is the only thing that helps me get through it.