#perfection

If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage. I doubt that you would read a close friend's early efforts and, in his or her presence, roll your eyes and snicker. I doubt that you would pantomime sticking your finger down your throat. I think you might say something along the lines of, 'Good for you. We can work out some of the problems later, but for now, full steam ahead! ↗

— Anne Lamott

#consciousness #perfectionism #self-talk #life

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness. ↗

— Tara Brach

#perfectionism #wholeness #life

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. ↗

— Noel Gallagher

#noel-gallagher #oasis #perfection #music

Perfection: a collection of a variety of pieces that, when viewed and felt individually, are difficult and confusing; but when brought together as one, create a perfect picture. Symphony, harmony, serenity. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#harmony #perfection #perfection-and-confusion #serenity #symphony

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. ↗

— Brené Brown

#media #perfectionism #photoshopped #psychology #wellbeing

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imperfection #incompleteness #shudder #silence #silence

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#perfection #utopia #boredom

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#communicate #concealed #critic #discover #dwell

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#complete #cosmos #directs #elevates #eternally

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. ↗

— Edward Bach

#between #christ #civilization #example #glorious