Luskin Center Quotes

#1. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun." Perfectionism

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. As Mike Roberts watched Tommy enter the building, he could not imagine that the boy was taking his last steps in the free world. The rest of his life would be behind prison walls.

John Grisham

#3. There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.

Margaret Bottome

#4. Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

Paulo Coelho

#5. She'd teach him nineteen different ways to spell matriarchy.

Sherman Alexie

#6. Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Susan Brooks

#7. The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

John Updike