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"There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is - Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't."
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"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."

"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."

"There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is - Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't."

"Drop the idea that you need to be perfect. You are already complete."

"Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood."

"I am a recovering perfectionist, and like all in recovery, I do better some days than others!"

"I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think, I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice."

"The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect."
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"Her question was clear - 'Father, where does the Loss reside?In the sighs?Cheeks with tears wiped?A lost appetite?Owning a room confined?Or in the smiles all falsified?Thus, the Father decide, It is no matter to hide, he replied - 'I think its deep inside, Probably, In the layers of your soul, Where the body provides it, Ample food to be - Magnified, multiplied, intensified.But once you clarify, That its not to be occupied inside, It starves of supplies, And dies.So child, when there is loss, Make sure you refuse to invite it inward, And absolutely never make it your lifelong parasite."

"Let there be a child, who should, not be taught. Let there be a child, who should, be refrained from books. Let him not hear, don't preach him, dear. Don't let him read the quotations, on internet and make them his passion. Don't tell him stories of successful, and make them his anthem.Allow him to grow unto what, he is to know."

"First, the thoughts are chosen, then the prayers are spoken. The candles are lit, then the plea is submitted. But soon after you move away, there is wax;melting, adulterating and braiding - a new constellation up on your blanks."

"Let nothing put me to unease, nothing to deceive.I have conceived, I exist.Because I am blessed, To gather time, in hearing, my breath, so tranquil.To life, I am, thankful."

"This world isn't a battlefield. Someday you will realise how your success depends on a bunch of other people and that day you will be wiser. You will know how connected we all are. Either we all make it or none of us does."

"She walks, on the streets, with a face that, doesn't belong.It smiles more than, many put together, whole day long.Her heart misfit, a little chipped.And she likes to, call it once broken, but now stitched."

"I found myself when I least expected you - at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only difference was the tea had turned cold, just as life had. And I found myself with an option. I could abandon this tea anytime and make a fresh one. You see?"

"Oh yes! I have couple - goals too. I love to couple myself with - Books, Coffee and Mountains."
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