"We have to create perfection through love"

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Bernie Siegel

#Perfection Quotes

“Childhood, whose very happiness is love.”
“For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.”
“The reality was that Warner wasn't there. If there were two people or 20 people identifying him, they were wrong.”
“You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf
“I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.”
“You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.”
“Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.”
“There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.”

Source : Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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