Perfect is the enemy of good.
“Stop worrying where you’re going,” the Sondheim lyric goes. “Move on.”
‘All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’ — Pascal
Voltaire, on his deathbed, was asked to renounce Satan and embrace God. He declined, saying this was “no time to be making new enemies.”
Life: You live it forward but understand it backward. - Abraham Verghese in Cutting for Stone