Quote by Anna Quindlen
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen

Other quotes by Anna Quindlen

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female. – Anna Quindlen

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Failure
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and dont discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, its stupid. Banning books shows you dont trust your kids to think and you dont trust yourself to be able to talk to them. – Anna Quindlen

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Trust
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After all those years as a woman hearing not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, Im enough. – Anna Quindlen

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Morning
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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
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“Know thyself” — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly. – André Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures

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Self-Discovery

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

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Self-Discovery

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. – Hugh Prather

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Self-Discovery

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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Self-Discovery

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You cant trust code that you did not totally create yourself. – Ken Thompson

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Trust

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. – Desmond Tutu

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Black History

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Weeds

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword – Im loyal to one particular paper, the Guardian – and thats my idea of a perfect morning. – Laura Marling

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Morning