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Quotes about Ideal

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Page: 86
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As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and the work.  You seldom achieve all the elements of the ideal, but it travels with you as the criterion and standard of what true belonging could be.

John O'Donohue
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The right shot, at the right moment, does not come because you do not let go of yourself.  You are not waiting for fulfillment, but bracing yourself for failure.  So long as this is so, you have no choice but to call forth something from yourself that ought to happen independently of you.

D.T. Suzuki (1870 - 1966)
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