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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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."


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


"Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy."


"For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are."


"Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the relationship. What's more, we're encouraged to accept the impermanence of all things: the flower that blooms today will be gone tomorrow, the objects we possess will break or fade or lose their utility, our relationships will change, life will end."


"It's affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry."


"Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we're in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind."
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