#perfect

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection. ↗

— Stanley Kunitz

#dreams

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#escape #go #involved #living #must

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#music #perfection #singing #siren #age

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#i #like #love #love story #perfect

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#back #before #cuts #economy #firmer

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#beauty #body-image #comfortable #happiness #imperfection

She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#beauty

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#broken #connection #imperfection #life #truth

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. ↗

— George Eliot

#done #forward #important #important work #men

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. ↗