#perfection

Earth life is giant field day where we willingly choose the limitation of racing with both feet in a potato sack, or sometimes we join up with another and agree to the limitation of racing as a team where each person has one leg tied to the leg of the other....Agreeing to run a race with limitations or live a life with limitations doesn't mean you're slow, clumsy, or unenlightened. It just means you're showing up on field day, participating, and if you're really good, you try your best despite the obstacles. ↗

— Kaya McLaren

#life #life

Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight hard battles against vanity, gluttony, and shame. But with God’s saving power, every new day is a gift, an opportunity to detach yourself from tormenting thoughts about food or how you look and to attach yourself to God. Remember, we all hunger for God, more than we hunger for a big bowl of ice cream or a perfect physique. ↗

— Kate Wicker

#catholic #christian #detachment #eating-disorder #faith

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#love

If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection. ↗

— Gunnar Björnstrand

#love #perfection #love

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#imperfect #imperfection #literature #literature-quotes #perfect

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color – because you don’t want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing. ↗

— Tibor Kalman

#hate #imperfections #love #unpredictability #love

Imperfection is the doorway for which perfection may step through...perfection must be enforced, it must be soldered into the eyes of the blind, it must be severed methodically and sewn into the very warmth that keeps at bay the cold of the night. Imperfection is the fire that sets alight the dark passage through which perfection wanders...and we must embrace it all, we must have purpose to survive. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#death #dread #forgiveness #goal #greed

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#apparent #being #eldest #every #father

I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#forever #i #perfectionist #rewrite

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#future #life #perfection #starting #work