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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.