Love doesn’t demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you’d prefer.
– Thomas Moore
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- People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying. – Dominic Riccitello
- Don’t write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself. – Christopher Hitchens
- It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one. – Thomas Hardy
- Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness. – Anthony Burgess
- Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. – William Shakespeare
- Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible. – Bryant McGill
- There must be a demand, there must be an urge and there must be a will and where there is a demand and a will, there will also be a way. – Patience Johnson
- If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
- What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals. – Archelle Georgiou
- need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. – Henry Hazlitt
- Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover. – Kamand Kojouri
- If you ask God for love,He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience,He may give you someone to bear. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies. – Napoleon Hill
- Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. – Yann Martel
- Ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread. – Emma Goldman
- Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark. – Welcome to Nightvale
- there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. – Nicole Krauss
- Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? – Wendy Doniger
- A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. – Mason Cooley
- Live more, whine less. Smile more, worry less. Love more, hate less. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing. – Francis A Schaeffer
- Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina. – James C Emlund
- Never believe for a second that your weak, within all of us we have a reserve of inner hidden strength, – Victoria Addino
- Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write. – Elena Ferrante
- Dreams appear as seeds that when planted, must become a forest reserve. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Don’t just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control. – SA Tawks
- Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own? – Donna Woolfolk Cross
- So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it. – Joseph Campbell
- Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed–Ask for more strenght! – Shengyen
- Let us not demand love; it will fly away. Just feel and give love, and it will be yours. – Debasish Mridha
- I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who choose to fake perfection. – Charles F Glassman
- Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection. – Colleen McCullough
- The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured. – Rick Warren
- As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. – Jack London
- Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious! – Mehmet Murat ildan