"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

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Source : Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

Anna Quindlen

#Confidence Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Being Yourself Quotes

“In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly”
“I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.”
“All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.”
“A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la CitÃ©.”

Source : Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan
“It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]”
“It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.”
“If you seek Jesus in all things you will surely find Jesus. And if you seek yourself, you will surely find yourself, but only to your ruin.”
“The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a chef. He'd come home and say 'Why don't you bake cakes like my friends' mothers?' I'd say, 'Oh, Julian, go out and buy a Mary Baker cake mix and do it yourself!' That started him off! By the time he was 13, he'd disappear into the kitchen whenever we had visitors and emerge with beautiful canapes. Now he thinks nothing of cooking for ten or 15 people, and he does it so calmly.”

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