Michelle Huneven Quotes

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

People who are comfortable in their own skin I admire, but you don't know what's really going on. If you meet someone who says they nail being a human, they are as far away from nailing it as a human as you can possibly imagine.

I am a human being, with feelings and emotions and scars and flaws, just like anyone else.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

I can live with myself.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.