If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every arrival foretells a leave-taking, every birth a death. Yet each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have delighted us long enough. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was typical of him that he lacked the taste to make a final exit. He spent too long at his farewells, chatting in the doorway, letting in the cold. —Anne Tyler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen? —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: time perception age summer spring winter snow fall Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry; it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry; it'll change. —John A. Simone Sr. More about this quote Tags: change bad good worry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. —Francis de Sales More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. —Norman Mailer More about this quote Tags: life growth transformation cost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. —Rebecca West More about this quote Tags: relationships happiness marriage unhappiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It may be that two souls meet and it is not destined that they are to be together in this world. They touch each other and part. They have other work to do. Yet the meeting can never be forgotten; it is ingrained on the soul itself. —Reshad Field More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: potential perfection belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
First it was passion, then it became duty, and finally an intolerable burden. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: passion duty burden Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring. —John Eliot, Ph.D. More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email