Life's too long for patience and virtue.

“Unlock yourself from the neurotic need to please. It erodes the soul. You will forever feel not quite good enough. Your worthiness becomes so expected, inevitably your defects become too easily seized upon, and indeed magnified. Everybody is needy, arrogant, callous, aggrieved, self-absorbed, petty, mean-spirited, spiteful, greedy, envious, ill-mannered and malicious in some measure, some of the time. Only when you accept that much of the pleasure of being alive is to enjoy your own horribleness, and the character flaws in everyone around you, will you find harmony and each day will pass more sweetly.”

— Charles Saatchi, Be the torst you can be,.