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a723322 Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. pain truthful perfect George R.R. Martin
1c6156b For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race. human-race life-s-journey the-journey two-wings perfection people humanity inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life truth wisdom inspirational living-life flying imperfection flight wisdom-quotes perfect ancient wings journey C. JoyBell C.
037afee Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. perfection life something-wicked-this-way-comes perfect Ray Bradbury
93eaa95 We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect. survive perfect lives Haruki Murakami
84f2d18 And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through. kids disappoint more-like-us spectacular than-we-think pretend damaged perfect Jodi Picoult
dde930c The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am. real perfect person Christine Feehan
8c80204 Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments. moments perfect Mary Balogh
e080eee "You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green." love perfect Jodi Picoult
73da199 "My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful." teaser trent-kalamack perfect rachel Kim Harrison
c84444e " had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. perfection ingersoll robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll praise greatness perfect respect honor Thomas Edison
e5f6663 I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain. unselfish perfect Erin McCarthy
c7e2343 And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect. sex romantic love patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt lesbian perfect right Patricia Highsmith
3725b35 "Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van's arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual's life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges." life nabakov real-things towers fog things perfect Vladimir Nabokov
d512ee1 Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real. He was far from perfect, moody and distant at times, and burdened with sharp temper and an impulsiveness that was part of his dark nature. But she felt more love for him than she thought possible. He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. (Schuyler Van Alen) perfect Melissa de la Cruz
b9c905d "You've got to live right, too. It's the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That's the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidance, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together ... The real cycle you're working in is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Qaulity or fall away from Qaulity together." quality zen perfect Robert M. Pirsig
22692c0 And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. liberation paralyzing upsetting leaving perfect never-again John Green
fdf02cc You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect. jesus heart love neighbor perfect John Green
23dc6cb Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony. wind perfect harmony sea Christine Feehan
c685fac And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all. words relationships lux-series perfect opal Jennifer L. Armentrout
8c6a5a6 Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you. perfect Markus Zusak
0f785a9 You are the call and I am the answer, You are the wish, and I the fulfilment, You are the night, and I the day. What else? It is perfect enough. It is perfectly complete. You and I, What more--? Strange, how we suffer in spite of this! suffering d-h-lawrence look-we-have-come-through you-and-i night-and-day whole perfect strange D.H. Lawrence
3deddf3 As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much. pathetic possibility perfect Francine Pascal
5524c6a You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely. excuse expect fail hard intervene intervention talk perfect mistake lesson failure expectations Robin Hobb
9bf6970 "The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it's perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the philosophy perfect David Mitchell
303713b No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect. love shopaholic wife perfect Sophie Kinsella
7dd10a1 If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no... woman silence shut-up perfect quiet Jennifer Crusie
8b4caf3 Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity. feminity white perfect irish Philip K. Dick
6b164b3 This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations. It is still capable of perceiving message-totalities and autonomous thing-signals when no morphologically intact figures are left - indeed, precisely then. The sense for perfection withdraws from the forms of nature - probably because nature itself is in the process of losing its ontological authority. The popularization of photography also increasingly devalues the standard views of things. As the first edition of the visible, nature comes into discredit. It can no longer assert its authority as the sender of binding messages - for reasons that ultimately come from its disenchantment through being scientifically explored and technically outdone. After this shift, 'being perfect' takes on an altered meaning: it means having something to say that is more meaningful than the chatter of conventional totalities. Now the torsos and their ilk have their turn: the hour of those forms that do not remind us of anything has come. Fragments, cripples and hybrids formulate something that cannot be conveyed by the common whole forms and happy integrities; intensity beats standard perfection. photography perfection nature poetry science perfect cripples fragments hybrids intensity technique rilke thing-poem modernity Peter Sloterdijk
ea37cfb And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws. love perfect flaws Cecelia Ahern
6110da0 It was the kind of early-fall day Rachel had always loved, not warm or cold, the sky all deep-blue and cloudless and no breeze, the crops proud and ripe and the leaves so pretty but hardly a one yet fallen--a day so perfect that the earth itself seemed sorry to let it pass, so slowed down its roll into evening and let it linger. early-fall linger proud perfect Ron Rash
5f238be She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it. unsettling perfect Emily St. John Mandel
483e121 "Grinning, I stroked his arms, over the tattoos and muscles. "Today has been fucking perfect, Judd. You can't know how perfect." "Oh, I know. I've been counting my blessings since the moment I woke up with you next to me." judd-and-tawny perfect Bijou Hunter
e771d44 There were just enough flaws to make her perfect. perfect Rick Moody
888006a You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing. perfect Robert Ferrigno
2182c45 If we were perfect, we'd be Wolves, right? wolves perfect Lora Leigh
f936b4b The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect. universe inspiration life inspirational metaphysics perfect quotes Chris Prentiss