Messy Quotes

• Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Fighting, People

  "Women Leading the Way" by Robin Amos Kahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Kerry Washington's Aha! Moment". www.oprah.com.

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• Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

  Hugh Mackay

  Relationship, Perfect, Dating

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• Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Strong, Temptation

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• You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

  Glennon Melton

  World, Mess, Persons

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• Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.

  Brené Brown

  Real, People, Perfect

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" by Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

  Winona Ryder

  Fall, Secret, Important

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• I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

  Georgina Chapman

  Persons, Disorganized

  "Georgina Chapman Interview: Red-Carpet Royalty" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

  Brit Marling

  Complicated, Flawed, Humans

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• Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.

  James Arthur Ray

  Poverty, Deals

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• Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

  Dorothy Day

  Affair, Haphazard

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• Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Nice, Opportunity, Yellow

  "CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks at Johns Hopkins graduation". hub.jhu.edu. May 22, 2014.

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• Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

  William P. Young

  Honesty, Sometimes, Shack

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• The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Fullness Of Life, Life Is

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• Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Drama, Real, Life Is

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• I have so many messy moments.

  Angela Kinsey

  Moments

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• Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

  Nora Ephron

  Husband, Women, Thinking

  "Nora Ephron’s Famous TNora Ephron’s Famous Talk At Wellesley’s Graduation". www.mindingthecampus.org. 1996.

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• Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

  Nigella Lawson

  Literature, Emotion, Contradictory

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

  Jennifer Wilson

  True Friend, Real, Visits You

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• Eating soup with a fork: slow and messy.

  Peter Schoomaker

  Soup, Eating, Forks

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• The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

  Holly Black

  Lying, People, Blame

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, God's Grace

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2015

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• Relationships are like farting, If you push too hard things could get messy real fast.

  Kevin Hart

  Real, Hard, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Kevin Hart from Jan 03, 2012

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• Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.

  Russell Westbrook

  Moving, House, Needs

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• Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

  Frederick Soddy

  Science, Invasion, Reason Why

  American Journal of Physics, Vol. 14, (p. 248), 1946.

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