Perfection Quotes - Page 34

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

A perfectionist has to take his time.

All things are complete within ourselves.

...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.

For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.

Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Quantum wellness isn’t about deprivation and it’s not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself to get comfortable with your highest potential, and then taking small steps to support that shift. It’s about showing up for yourself, day by day, and then one day finding that you’ve undergone a transformation.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

Perfection is the child of time.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.