Perfect Quotes - Page 21

• For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

  Aleister Crowley

  Lust, Purpose, Way

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.5, Public Lex

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• The past is always tense, the future perfect.

  Zadie Smith

  Future, Past, Classic

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• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Faith, Airplane

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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• That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Listening, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 07, 2015

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• When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Stars, Learning

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Stars, Queens, Rabbits

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.16, Random House

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• AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, June, Perfect Days

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.”, p.56, tredition

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• Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Marriage, Love You

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• I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, New York, Humorous

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Laughing, Old Friends

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• If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.

  Richard Bach

  Expression, Body, Impatient

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• There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.

  Pat Conroy

  Betrayal, Integrity, Luck

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• …Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.

  Pat Conroy

  Imagination, Water, Covenant

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• He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

  Tom Robbins

  Clouds, Dust, Bird

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.227, Bantam

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• The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Wise, Spiritual

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• You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

  Jim Stovall

  Three, Four, Lost Everything

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• Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fun

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.606, Simon and Schuster

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• Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Mankind, Truth Love

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• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Keys, Order

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

  Paulo Coelho

  Party, Blow, Joy

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Healing, Heart, Silence

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1264, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Morning

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• There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Grades, All Things, Ifs

  Thomas Aquinas (1976). “Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation”, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Mean, People

  Philip Yancey (2002). “Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church”, p.12, Image

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