"Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection"

-- Susan Jeffers

#Happiness Quotes #Goal Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.”
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
“I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.”
“She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.”
“Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.”
“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

Source : Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.139, Cambridge University Press
“I acknowledge that I have no idea who the hell I am, and I think that's the first step.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”

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