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• [On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

  Pope John Paul II

  Perfect, Soul, Age

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. May 18, 2003.

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• And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.

  Ally Carter

  Dream, Sleep, Perfect Days

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• Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Believe, Sight

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• If my son would only listen to my advice, he would lead a perfect life. I'll still be saying that to him when I'm 75. I like to imagine that I have the control, but he's a teenager, so that never really happens.

  Virginia Madsen

  Teenager, Son, Perfect

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If young kids choose to have me as a role model...what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.

  Anne Hathaway

  Mistake, Kids, Role Models

  "Anne Hathaway Talks The Devil Wears Prada". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 28, 2006.

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• The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.

  Zhang Zhao

  Children, Lakes, Perfect

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• The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.

  Geoff Dyer

  Lying, Perfect, People

  Geoff Dyer (2012). “Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence”, p.81, Canongate Books

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• Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.

  Karen White

  Hurt, Wall, Disappointment

  Karen White (2007). “Learning to Breathe”, p.255, Penguin

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• ..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

  Gayle Forman

  Dream, Mistake, Distance

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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• I’ve been thinking about that ever since. Am I lucky? Am I lucky that I didn’t die? Am I lucky that, compared to the other kids here, my life doesn’t seem so bad? Maybe I am, but I have to say, I don’t feel lucky. For one thing, I’m stuck in this pit. And just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. You can’t compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn’t work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

  Jeannette Walls

  People, Perfect, Secret

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  Olivia Wilde

  Block, Emotional, Feet

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• Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Discipline, Perfect, Achievement

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• A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Life, War, Sea

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.325

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• I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

  Kevin Costner

  Regret, Perfect, Decision

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• While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

  Josh McDowell

  Pain, Loneliness, Perfect

  Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell (2010). “Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God”, p.69, Baker Books

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• All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

  Mencius

  Perfect, Insightful, Would Be

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• I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.

  Adam Brody

  School, Kids, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Knowing, Perfect, Life Is

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Fighting, Simple

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga”, p.97, Swami Vivekananda

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• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

  J. B. Priestley

  Birthday, Perfect, Age

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• Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

  Annette Funicello

  Life, Wisdom, Motivation

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• I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

  Sarah MacLean

  Perfect, Want, Easy

  Sarah MacLean (2012). “A Rogue by Any Other Name: Number 1 in series”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and illusions of what many people believe is the American dream - the perfect life. Madonna Quotes.

  Unknown

  Dream, Song, Believe

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• Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Country, Heart, Long

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