The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
Katherine Morgan Schafler
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When you ruminate, you mistake replay for reflection. When you catastrophize, you mistake worrying for preparation.”
“Your memories of perfect moments are memories of moments in which you were most present.”
“You still love planning, you still love organizing, you still love making it beautiful-but you do it because you want to, not because everything will fall apart if you don't. You operate from a well of desire, not a pit of desperation. Your life may or may not look the same on the outside, but on the inside, much has changed. You stop working to curate a programmed experience. You allow yourself open access to all that you think and feel. You allow yourself to be free.”
“When you understand that closure is a fantasy, you have all the closure you'll ever need.”
“Humans have a special talent for complicating simplicity. We make a spectacle out of simple.”
“Because balance doesn't exist, you're either operating under or over your energetic equilibrium. In other words, you're in the realm of being either underwhelmed or overwhelmed. Perfectionists reliably choose to operate over their equilibriums. For perfectionists, the risk of being underwhelmed is much scarier than the risk of being overwhelmed.”
“A restored perfectionist understands that it's not that you long for some external thing or for yourself to be perfect, it's that you long to feel whole and to help others feel whole.”
“You live with an attachment to a future outcome that generates chronic excess anxiety and you call that anxiety "hope.”
“You can perfectly paint by numbers without making a single mistake, but you'll never create a masterpiece that way.”
“Where you worry you may be planting a seed, a large tree has already grown. -Dr. Stacey Freedenthal”
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