Integrate Good & Bad

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself." - Ethel Barrymore


I really resonate with this quote. This is one of the biggest challenges of human beings, to not take oneself so darn seriously. When we're born we don't know what perfection is, we don't really know what perfection is now either. If I could redefine the word perfection it would be something like this:
Perfection is to be yourself with your ups and downs, with your shortcomings and your good sides without trying to hide them, just accepting them as a part of yourself and integrate them into one. To not separate good from bad, and to realize that they're one - a whole.