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• This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fate, Each Day, Lasts

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• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Success, Softball

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• Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Magic, Singers

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013

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• Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

  Pythagoras

  Men, Light, Soul

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• Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Excellence, Literature

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• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Possible And Impossible, Achieving The Impossible

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Can Do

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• Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Form, Highest

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.86, Penguin

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Age

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to make herself heard. She knew how to reach out and latch on. She knew what she needed to do to survive. I didn’t know how it was possible that such perfection could have developed within a body as flawed as my own, but when I looked into her face, I saw that it clearly was.

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Daughter, Heart, Oxygen

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Doe

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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• The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Perseverance, Rain

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• ...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Failure, Power

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.79, Paulist Press

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• But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Games, Play, Style

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• If God is not unchanging, then the whole basis of our faith begins to fall apart, and our understanding of the universe begins to unravel. This is because our faith and hope and knowledge all ultimately depend on a person who is infinitely worthy of trust - because he is absolutely and eternally unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises.

  Wayne Grudem

  Fall, Understanding, Promise

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.153, Zondervan

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• Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

  Robert Kirkman

  Technology, Different, Matter

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• I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

  Jack O'Connell

  Art, Opinion, Ideology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is' (I Jn. 3:2). This is the perfection of adoption of sons and renewal which God bestowed on us in Christ, and of which John says in his Gospel that, 'Christ gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God' (Jn. 1:12-13).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Believe, Son

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• ...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable dwelling place (cf. Jn. 14:2) will be ours to enjoy. For this is what our sainted teacher said in his famous philosophical aphorism: 'Then we shall know as we are known' (I Cor. 13:12), when we mingle our god-formed mind and divine reason to what is properly its own and the image returns to the archetype for which it now longs.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Teacher, Philosophical

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• ... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Perfect, Needs

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• We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are its intermediate stage, and its perfection is victory through spiritual struggles against the passions, which procures painless, indestructible, heavenly life.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Struggle

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• [God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also because He is far beyond being so. He sets a boundary to the boundless and in His total unity He rises above all limitation. He is neither contained nor comprehended by anything. He reaches out to everything and beyond everything and does so with unfailing generosity and unstinted activity.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Perfect, Generosity

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• The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Light, Doubt, Wipe

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.77, Penguin

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• The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

  Socrates

  Perfect, Together, Collectives

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