"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
—JH Newman
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"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." —JH Newman
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
from Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
You offer not perfection but commitment to make amends for failures, to make restitution for losses. This is a flexible (and therefore adult) presentation of your self. It preserves you from the expectation by others that you can be counted on absolutely, or the verdict of others that you be discounted absolutely. “To live is to change and to be pe
... See morefrom How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration by David Richo
- Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’ve ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.
from The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness by Maria Popova
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