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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#035 - William Blake, on perception: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”
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"One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it." -Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)
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saeah · 8 years
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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." -Lao Tzu
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#368 - André Gide, on authenticity: "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
http://bit.ly/2mRPwHR
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#286 - “Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.” -Brené Brown (The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are)
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#010 - Bobby Kennedy, on failure: "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
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imperfectionistblog · 7 years
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#357: Teddy Roosevelt, born on this day in 1858, on living a "strenuous life": “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt Read the full text of his speech "The Strenuous Life": http://bit.ly/2y9iI24
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imperfectionistblog · 7 years
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#359 - John Keats on imagination: “I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination - What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth” -John Keats (“Letter to Benjamin Bailey Nov 22, 1817″)


http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35698/35698-h/35698-h.htm#XXII
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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“So unobtrusive many a joy   We pass by and forget it, But worry strives to own our lives,   And conquers if we let it.”

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox (“Thanksgiving”)


http://imperfectionistblog.com/2017/11/your-unobtrusive-joys/
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#372 - “While you are postponing, life speeds by.” -Seneca
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_1
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#023 - “There is no innovation or creativity without failure. Period.” 
Check out ‪#‎failogue‬, a series that brings you stories of failure.
http://imperfectionistblog.com/category/failogue/
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imperfectionistblog · 7 years
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#356:  “Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.” -Thich Nhat Hanh (Living Buddha, Living Christ)
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#365 - “I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.” -Margaret Atwood (Lady Oracle)
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#360: Kurt Vonnegut, on accidents:
“You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again” -Kurt Vonnegut”


https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-best-jokes-are-dangerous-an-interview-with-kurt-vonnegut-part-three
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#361: Fyodor Dostovesky on respect: “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.”
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imperfectionistblog · 6 years
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#364 - “I dwell in Possibility” -Emily Dickinson (“I dwell in Possibility (466)”)
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