"Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at."

-- Pema Chodron

#Compassion Quotes #Self Quotes #Imperfection Quotes

“When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.”

Source : Lian Hearn (2005). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama. episode 2”, Puffin
“If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.”
“Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.”
“To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions”
“A woman is beautiful only when she is loved.”

Source : 1944 Mr Skeffington (with Philip Epstein).
“And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun, but all of my comments are true. I don't lie. If they get mad at me for saying something that isn't true, then tap me on my shoulder and say, 'That isn't true.'”
“â€ŽThere is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.”

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