Lisa Loeb Quotes

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

It's difficult when you want it all.

I need instant gratification.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Most of the time, we fantasise about our love lives and partners, but don't put in enough work enough to fulfil them.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.

I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

You don't need to win every medal to be successful.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

loneliness has its own needs!

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.