"Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Giving Up Quotes #Smart Quotes #People Quotes

“It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.”
“Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.”
“To see Earth fully we already need to love it”
“There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort ... The need of work is in me.”
“The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.”

Source : Elizabeth Blair Lee (1991). “Wartime Washington: the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee”
“When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.”
“I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.”
“All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.”

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