Ariel Gore Quotes

He who awaits much can expect little.

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

False expectations take away joy.

We try so hard to be excellent and only want the best of the best but, instead of the greatest day ever, try to have a good one.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

Most of us are destined to be unhappy if we can't accept that we will have moments - or a waist size - that don't match our perfect vision of how things should be.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

Nobody can be happy all the time, and if you aim to be, ultimately you will never be happy.

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

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.

I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.