Thursday, June 12, 2014

The gifts of imperfection

I'm currently reading (and loving) a book by Brene Brown called The Gifts of Imperfection - Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are.  I wanted to share a few thoughts I've enjoyed:

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:  they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you really need to do, in order to have what you want."
- Margaret Young

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
- E. E. Cummings

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

"Cultivate the courage to be imperfect."
- Brene Brown

I know, most of those are people she quotes in the book, but obviously Brene Brown says some pretty amazing stuff too.  This is just a snippet of what I've liked so far.  Hope you like it too.



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