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  • #1
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #3
    J.D. Salinger
    “I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone . . . I'd cook all my own food, and later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. She'd come and live in my cabin with me, and if she wanted to say anything to me, she'd have to write it on a piece of paper, like everybody else”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #4
    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #5
    Banksy
    “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    Banksy

  • #6
    Banksy
    “A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
    Banksy, Wall and Piece

  • #7
    Banksy
    “Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
    You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
    at high speed with total clarity.”
    Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

  • #8
    Banksy
    “I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
    Banksy

  • #9
    Donald Miller
    “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
    Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

  • #10
    Bob Marley
    “Who are you to judge the life I live?
    I know I'm not perfect
    -and I don't live to be-
    but before you start pointing fingers...
    make sure you hands are clean!”
    Bob Marley

  • #11
    André Breton
    “L'union libre [Freedom of Love]"

    My wife with the hair of a wood fire
    With the thoughts of heat lightning
    With the waist of an hourglass
    With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger
    My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude
    With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth
    With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass
    My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host
    With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes
    With the tongue of an unbelievable stone
    My wife with the eyelashes of strokes of a child's writing
    With brows of the edge of a swallow's nest
    My wife with the brow of slates of a hothouse roof
    And of steam on the panes
    My wife with shoulders of champagne
    And of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the ice
    My wife with wrists of matches
    My wife with fingers of luck and ace of hearts
    With fingers of mown hay
    My wife with armpits of marten and of beechnut
    And of Midsummer Night
    Of privet and of an angelfish nest
    With arms of seafoam and of riverlocks
    And of a mingling of the wheat and the mill
    My wife with legs of flares
    With the movements of clockwork and despair
    My wife with calves of eldertree pith
    My wife with feet of initials
    With feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinking
    My wife with a neck of unpearled barley
    My wife with a throat of the valley of gold
    Of a tryst in the very bed of the torrent
    With breasts of night
    My wife with breasts of a marine molehill
    My wife with breasts of the ruby's crucible
    With breasts of the rose's spectre beneath the dew
    My wife with the belly of an unfolding of the fan of days
    With the belly of a gigantic claw
    My wife with the back of a bird fleeing vertically
    With a back of quicksilver
    With a back of light
    With a nape of rolled stone and wet chalk
    And of the drop of a glass where one has just been drinking
    My wife with hips of a skiff
    With hips of a chandelier and of arrow-feathers
    And of shafts of white peacock plumes
    Of an insensible pendulum
    My wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestos
    My wife with buttocks of swans' backs
    My wife with buttocks of spring
    With the sex of an iris
    My wife with the sex of a mining-placer and of a platypus
    My wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweetmeat
    My wife with a sex of mirror
    My wife with eyes full of tears
    With eyes of purple panoply and of a magnetic needle
    My wife with savanna eyes
    My wife with eyes of water to he drunk in prison
    My wife with eyes of wood always under the axe
    My wife with eyes of water-level of level of air earth and fire”
    Andre Breton, Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology

  • #12
    Sarah Dessen
    “It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #13
    Colum McCann
    “People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”
    Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

  • #14
    Cristiano Ronaldo
    “I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.”
    Cristiano Ronaldo

  • #15
    T.H. White
    “If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #16
    Audrey Hepburn
    “There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #17
    Jeannette Walls
    “Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”
    Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

  • #18
    C. JoyBell C.
    “There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #19
    Ellen Hopkins
    “HOW

    do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so

    WHY

    push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is

    WHERE

    you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway,

    WHEN

    did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person

    WHO

    lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you -

    WHAT

    is perfect.”
    Ellen Hopkins, Perfect

  • #20
    Charles Baxter
    “When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.”
    Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

  • #21
    C. JoyBell C.
    “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.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #22
    “I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”
    Michael J. Fox

  • #23
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

  • #24
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #25
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #26
    Scott Adams
    “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
    Scott Adams

  • #27
    Scott Adams
    “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”
    Scott Adams

  • #28
    Jim Rohn
    “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
    Jim Rohn

  • #29
    Nicholas Sparks
    “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #31
    “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
    Roger Crawford



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