what even is perfectionism??
boy, this single word sure does mean a lot of things to a lot of people, huh?
what even is perfectionism??
When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you’re doing? You’re chasing something that doesn’t exist. You’re making everyone around you miserable.
You’re making yourself miserable. Perfection? There’s about five times a year you wake up perfect, when you can’t lose to anybody, but it’s not those five t
... See moreAndre Agassi • Open: An Autobiography
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
-John Steinbeck
Wanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
Until we’re treating ourselves with dignity when we are struggling, we’re not healing.
Heidi Priebe is in motion • Tweet
Excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection
Laura Cincera • Tweet
my working definition of perfectionism is that it's the pathological need to be perceived as both special and exceptional, because you learned that love and acceptance are conditional on being perceived that way
