I don't want to get to the end of my life and find
that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it
as well.--Diane Ackerman
No
human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf
perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity
as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy
expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are
literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which
have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort,
and the law of human judgment, Mercy.-- John Ruskin
