Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

One has to seek out pleasurable sensations, in the absence of which blandness comes naturally. The upshot of this is that we must continually work at keeping suffering (including tedium) at bay, and we can do so only imperfectly. Dissatisfaction does and must pervade life. There are moments, perhaps even periods, of satisfaction, but they occur against a background of dissatis?ed striving.

Life isn't meant to be lived perfectly?but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Better a little which is well done than a great deal imperfectly.

The finest works of art are precious among other reasons because they make it possible for us to know if only imperfectly and for a little while what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.