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"Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make."
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"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."
"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."
"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."
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"We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."
"Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities."
"It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships."
"A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don't dare or know how to communicate them to others."
"Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hated us for going traveling in the first place, even if they left us last June or died twelve and a half years ago, it is impossible not to experience a shiver of a sense that they may have come along anyway, just to surprise us and make us feel special (as someone must have done for us when we were small, if only occasionally, or we would never had the strength to make it this far)."
"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
"If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthings of the forces that laid out the oceans and chiselled the mountains."
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