But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Lorrie Moore
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes...
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes...
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes...
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes...
About This Quote

You can never really get rid of the feeling of inadequacy. It is always there. It affects you every day. But we have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

It is what we do and this particular passage is a beautiful reminder that we need to keep going. Don’t expect anything more than you can deliver and don’t think that you are not good enough because you fall short of your own standards all the time.

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