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"After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot " how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point."
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"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."

"When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible."

"The only measurement I understand is perfection."

"Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection."

"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."

"Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier."

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."

"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual security'-knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame."

"Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?"He made a fist."Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.'"But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson."What lesson? I asked.He stretched open his empty fingers."We can take nothing with us."

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."

"She put one hand on mine. "When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times."

"They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you."
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