Perfection Quotes - Page 19

• For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

  Harry Knowles

  Years, Cinema, Fiction

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Mirrors, Looks

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• That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ties, Mind, Together

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Wisdom, Thinking, Wells

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• Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Character, Pay, Matter

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• As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts.

  Michael J Cohen

  Real, Fall, Intelligent

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.84, Trafford Publishing

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• The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

  Bodhidharma

  Wisdom, Perfect, Water

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Moving

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• If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Misery, Seeming

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• Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Progress Not Perfection, Growth

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 19, 2011

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• I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

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• We don't have to be perfect to be a blessing. We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection to cover our imperfection, knowing that one day we will finally be all that Christ saved us for and wants us to be.

  Gigi Graham

  Christian, Real, Blessing

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Heart, Broken

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• God wanted man to know him somehow through his creatures, and since no creature could fittingly reflect the infinite perfection of the Creator, he multiplied his creatures and gave a certain goodness and perfection to each of them so that from them we could judge the goodness and perfection of the Creator, who embraces infinite perfection in the perfection of his one and utterly simple essence.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Animal, Simple, Men

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• The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.

  Edwin Markham

  Running, Land, Perfect

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• God just turns on all the beauty He can possibly create, and that final Heaven on Earth, the eternal one of the New Heaven and the New Earth will be the most beautiful of all and the most perfect!-The perfect government of God administered directly and in perfection in every way!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Government, Perfect

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• It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Daily Tasks, Mindfulness

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• We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Mindfulness

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• Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Car, Mindfulness

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• ...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Light, Understanding

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• Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

  Peter Prange

  Life Is, Strive, Achieve

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

  James Whistler

  Art, Desire, Way

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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