Inadequacies Quotes

“Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.”

“Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.”

“One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.”

“If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.”

“Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them. And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.”

“Today I wondered why my eyelashes aren't thick enough and why my feet aren't small enough. Then it hit me. Why do we take these insignificant things like millimeters on lashes and shoeboxes and then try to fit ourselves into those stupid molds? Why do I take the beauty that is me, and measure it up to a shoe size? A length of hair on my eyes? Am I not the more wonderful creation, far more great than those stupid things? Why do we take ourselves and desecrate ourselves daily? Pushing ourselves into cubicles because we think we are supposed to fit into them? Are we ice cubes? And suddenly I just don't understand the inadequacies anymore! Because they're not even inadequacies, at all! I will laugh and be beautiful.”

“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”

“Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.”

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

“I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?”

“Canning is a whole world of a thing to do. It requires that you get out of your head. It's a Zen thing. You cannot be wondering about your inadequacies and how they drove Bob off and be making jelly. You'll wind up with big, cylindrical jujubes.”