"It is not worth the while to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.”
“Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.”
“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.”
More on Self Acceptance
“If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.”
“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”
“Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.”
More on Imperfection
“Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.”
“Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.”
“The finest wits have their sediment.”