Leo Tolstoy Quotes

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.

With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

I'm a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it's still not perfect, you know?

I have this problem where I'm never satisfied with what I do.

I've always had that personality that nothing was never good enough.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

We're human, so you're never happy with what you have.

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

When do any of us ever do enough?

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it!

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.