Perfection Quotes - Page 26

The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

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

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing Itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are perfection. You are magnificence. You are the creator, and you are creating the creation of You on this planet

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.

About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really being used. … when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they’ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they’re untouchable.

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.