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Have no fear of perfection

  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. - Burk Hudson Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Eugene Delacroix The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.  - Anna Quindlen Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. - Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. - Dr. David M. Burns Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real ...

Carry the battle to them

  Harry S Truman Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. --Harry S Truman I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. --Frank Zappa Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. -- Plato If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. --Henry Ford Indecision may or may not be my problem. --Jimmy Buffett Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. --Thomas Jefferson If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. --Dick Cavett I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. --Albert Einstein One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie, Letter to her brother, 1894 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt, 'This Is My Story,' 1937 READ MORE Check out Lemp...

By all means marry...

  By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. --Socrates The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape... --Pablo Picasso It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. --Henry David Thoreau The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. --Cecil B. DeMille Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. --Eleanor Roosevelt We turn not older with years, but newer every day. --Emily Dickinson One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. --Oscar Wilde You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. -...