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“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
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