Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

If you keep trying to do it all at once in a big blast way, you’ll end up not doing it at all

Our culture is obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to the way women look. The parameters of acceptability as far as physical appearance go are so limiting that only a handful of women actually...

Perfektion ist erreicht, wenn man nichts mehr wegnehmen kann.

Sometimes it’s hard to know when you’ve crossed the line from conscientious to compulsive. When you’re in the thick of an assignment, it’s easy to believe that you must spend so much time brainstorming, researching,...

Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect – for our families and our friends, for each other – when the funny thing was, we didn’t have to....

If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It’s the ultimate self-delusion.

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It’s a good thing to learn more...

Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved.

Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last twenty-six years. Motherhood wasn’t the real problem, though it took him a long...

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

Perhaps we’ll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process...

Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure...

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches...

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay – and it’s usually most wise to start today.

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you’ve overcome is your ticket into leadership. It’s what you’re meant...

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft....

As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect

I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.

What people are craving isn’t perfection. People aren’t longing to be impressed; they’re longing to feel like they’re home. If you create a space full of love and character and creativity and soul, they’ll take...

My life, my soul is anything but finished hence it is not perfect. Only masterpieces are finished and could be considered perfect. So unless you are a “David” or a “Requiem” or perhaps a “Mona...

I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy

If you don’t believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth’s: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if...

In the past, my brain could only compute perfection or failure—nothing in between. So words like competent, acceptable, satisfactory, and good enough fell into the failure category. Even above average meant failure if I received...

There are too many people who love me, and accept me, and never try and change me, and who don’t condemn me in the slightest, for me to waste even one moment of my life...

Progress is much more better than perfect.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

People cannot relate to a perfectionist, there is beauty in brokenness. Your story will bring healing to others.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process.

You have to be everything.

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

-what’s really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it’s a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to...

HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to...

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

Keep going even when the going is slow and uncertain.Make your dream your prayer and your service.Don’t wait for recognition. Let it find you working. Romanticize authenticity instead of perfection.

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

There isn’t anything you can’t make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

We seem to feel as though the life our children have — that we have built for them — is just a delicate house of cards, held together by the most intricate balancing of all...

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in…it’s actually kind of...

Moms are not perfect—we are being perfected.