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Sharon Salzberg

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

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

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"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

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"One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."

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"You were born perfect, you only forgot."

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"I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years."

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"If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections."

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"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."

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"Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless."

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"I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect."

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