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• When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

  Cecelie Berry

  Claims, Young, Knows

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• When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned with perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it. And you do that by loving the wacky, endlessly optimistic, enthusiasticall y uninhibited free spirit that is the essence of style, the quintessence of heart, and uniquely you.

  Cecelie Berry

  Heart, Optimistic, Essence

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• Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Desire, Rooms, Causes

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• As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

  Seth Godin

  Might, Matter, Pursuit

  "No one reads a comic strip because it's drawn well". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

  Mario Testino

  Fashion, People, Bored

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• Mothers Who Know Honor God They bring daughters in clean and ironed dresses with hair brushed to perfection; their sons wear white shirts and ties and have missionary haircuts. These mothers know they are going to sacrament meeting, where covenants are renewed. These mothers have made and honor temple covenants. They know that if they are not pointing their children to the temple, they are not pointing them toward desired eternal goals. These mothers have influence and power.

  Julie B. Beck

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Girl, Sweet, Thinking

  "Wanted: one leading man" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2004.

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• Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

  Doug Marlette

  Compassion, Race, Ease

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• His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.

  Blake Crouch

  Halloween, Cutting, Darkness

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• Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

  Chloe Neill

  Hurt, Healing, Being Sad

  Chloe Neill (2012). “Biting Cold: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.97, Penguin

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• It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Believe, Men

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• Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self... The philosophic search for enlightenment and the artist's search for perfection of work can meet and unite. Art can be a path to spiritual enlightenment but not to complete and lasting enlightenment. It can be born out of, and can give birth itself to, only Glimpses. For art is a search for beauty, which by itself is not enough. Beauty must be supported by virtue and both require wisdom to guide them.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Art, Self

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• Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Mean, Knowing

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• I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Friendship, Men, Perfect

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 5:181, 1932.

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• I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Thinking

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• I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Yoga, Thinking

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• The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

  Chloe Neill

  Hurt, Being Sad, Faces

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• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  Edmund Husserl

  Ancient, Habit, Natural

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

  William Shawn

  Fall, Process

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• The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Warrior, Acceptance

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.2

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• You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Judging, Judgment, Divine

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.200, Routledge

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• In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Moon, Journey, Circles

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• In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

  Alexander Wang

  Certain, Take Time, It Takes Time

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• The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

  Rachel Cohn

  Real, Struggle, People

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