"... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything……" — Gretchen Rubin
"... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection."
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117 Quotes by Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin has 117 quotes on this site.
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Act the way that you want to feel.
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Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."
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It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the…
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I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures,…
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Be a storehouse of happy memories.
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Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
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Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.
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Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about…
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You can choose what you do, you cant choose what you like to do.
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We've all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief: denial, anger, bagaining, depression and acceptance. Â By contrats,…
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We are happy when we are growing.
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Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.
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More Aspire Quotes
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
— Kevin Bacon
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I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
— Drew Barrymore
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I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.
— Brooke Burke
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I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
— Jeb Bush
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander…
— Fidel Castro
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
— James Allen
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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
— Saint Augustine
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
— Peter McWilliams
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is…
— Samuel Gompers
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