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Ponniyin Selvan - The Pinnacle of Sacrifice, Vol. 1

by Kalki Krishnamurthy

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Jun 23, 2025 03:47AM

“Clients come to acknowledge that their desire was never to be perfect; it was only to be loved. To simply be seen, accepted, and embraced without conditions is what the child, who is now an adult, has been obsessed with-not perfect.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

tags: desire, inner-child, perfectionist

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“Your memories of perfect moments are memories of moments in which you were most present.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

tags: perfectionism, present-moment-living

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“For so long, I honestly believed that whatever I accomplished didn't count if I had to ask for help along the way. I used to never ask for help, for anything from anyone.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

tags: help, perfectionist

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“You live with an attachment to a future outcome that generates chronic excess anxiety and you call that anxiety "hope.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

tags: anxiety, hope, perfectionist

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“So much of my life felt so out of control for so long. And I’m done with that being my reality.
I want my life to be in my hands. Not an eating disorder’s or a casting director’s or an agent’s or my mom’s. Mine.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

tags: life

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