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

Perfection, Isolation, Life, Barrier

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

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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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."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"It's all about perfection, isn't it?"

Keira Knightley, English Actress

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"If you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Perfection's stuck."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."

Hugh Mackay, Australian Psychologist

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"No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"You were born perfect, you only forgot."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"It is absurd to look for perfection."

Camille Pissarro, French Artist

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"Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition."

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"Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels."

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"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."

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"Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was."

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"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."

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"The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred."

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"Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point."

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"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."

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