"We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spotsâ€”pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny."

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Source : James Howe (2012). “The Watcher”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

James Howe

#Hate Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.”
“If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.”
“When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.”
“If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.”
“Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.”

Source : Alexander Berkman, Jewish Anarchist Federation (1929). “Now and after: the A B C of communist anarchism”
“I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.”
“I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift and I'm making the most of my opportunity.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.”

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