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“Take just ONE minute today and look around you and within you and try for just that minute to understand the utterly amazing miracle and incredible perfection and beauty you are experiencing and observing!”

Trying Looks Today Minutes Gratitude Perfection Miracle Incredibles Appreciation Just One Within You Observing One Minute Gratitude And Appreciation

Author:John Assaraf

“Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.”

People Knows Trying Real Earth Life Is Energy Perfect Amount Truth Is Perfection Incredibles Authenticity Admire Imperfect Messy Down To Earth Time And Energy

Author:Brené Brown

“We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.”

Trying Turns Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Perfection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.”

Feels Trying May Stills Done Dream Ought Bed Perfection Smoking Pipe Radiant Incompetent Unspeakable Splendour Smoking A Pipe Best Picture

Book:Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

“And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.”

Trying Mean Joy Laughing Perfection Add Make Me Laugh

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.”

Trying Has Beens Hard Perfect Perfection Tendencies Repeats

Book:Seven novels and other short stories

Source: Seven novels and other short stories

“The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.”

Feels Trying Humans Self Human Beings Steps Perfection

Book:Zen

Source: Zen

“Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.”

Way Want Trying Self Motivational Energy Goal Perfect Perception Perfection Destructive Perfectionism Unattainable Time And Energy Self Destructive

Author:Brené Brown