Rebecca Wells Quotes

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

The best is the enemy of the good enough.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.

I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'