Wednesday Wisdom

Remember my perfectionism compulsion? Who knows why I'm this way, but it's taken me 31 years to get here so I have some grace for myself if I haven't quite mastered it yet. A fresh perspective, at least for me, and a beautiful relief and challenge:

"A [woman] who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly. One who is content in what [she] has, and who accepts the fact that [she] inevitably misses very much in life, is far better off than one who has much more but who worries about all [she] may be missing. For we cannot make the best of what we are, if our hearts are always divided between what we are and what we are not." --Thomas Merton