Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
We are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure your perfection is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
- John Ruskin
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
- John Ruskin
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.
- Roger Angell
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
- Michelangelo
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
- Kevyn Aucoin
But no perfection is so absolute
That some inpurity doth not pollute.
- William Shakespeare
Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!
- Jim Bouchard
Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.
- Tara Brach
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Harriet B Braiker
Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off
- Augusten Burroughs
Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
- Emily Giffin
But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
- Emily Giffin
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
- Voltaire
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants.
- Raymond Chandler
I must not, like the quietists, reduce all religion to a denial of any specific action, despising all other means, since what makes perfection is God's order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.
- Jean Pierre De Caussade
Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
- Sri Chinmoy
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
- Adam Clarke
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi Jr
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
- Douglas Horton
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
- Owen Feltham
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
- Luis Figo
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
- Ernst Fischer
He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
- Jamie Ford
From character Henry Lee in the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about". Love it!
- Jamie Ford
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
- Michael J Fox
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
- Leo Tolstoy
Perfection is the child of time.
- Joseph Hall
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
- Laurell K Hamilton
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
- Carrie Jones
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
- Gelsey Kirkland
It's all about perfection, isn't it?
- Keira Knightley
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out. However, what meaning is there in perfection? None. Not a bit....After perfection there exists nothing higher. Not even room for creation which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either. Understand? To scientists like ourselves, perfection is despair. - Kurotsuchi Mayuri (Bleach 306)
- Tite Kubo
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
- R D Laing
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
- Anne Lamott
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
- Gottfried Leibniz
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
The secret is in action - here and now.
It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.
Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect
- whatever your idea of perfection may be.
All you need is courage.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
- Lao Tzu
The day of perfection is not scheduled on earth.
- Naty Matos
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
- W Somerset Maugham
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.
- Osho
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
- Fernando Pessoa
Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.
- Pandora Poikilos
Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.
- Robert Reed
The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection
- Murray Rothbard
Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.
- Elizabeth Scott
Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
- William Shawn
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
- Fulton J Sheen
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
- Philip Sidney
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
- Rebecca Solnit
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
- James Stephens
In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no room for imagination. There is no ability to visualize a concept. Perfection is limited by its own nature, which in short, is zero.
- Lionel Suggs
...But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of what perfection is..
- Lionel Suggs
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?
- Michael Swanwick
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
- Wislawa Szymborska
Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.
- Lew Wallace
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
- H G Wells
What happens when perfection isn't good enough?
- Scott Westerfeld
I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.
- Jonny Wilkinson
People keep looking for the perfect one, but perfection is an attribute of God alone.
- Farahad Zama
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
- Emile Zola
- Elizabeth Gilbert
We are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure your perfection is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
- John Ruskin
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
- John Ruskin
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.
- Roger Angell
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
- Michelangelo
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
- Kevyn Aucoin
But no perfection is so absolute
That some inpurity doth not pollute.
- William Shakespeare
Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!
- Jim Bouchard
Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.
- Tara Brach
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Harriet B Braiker
Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off
- Augusten Burroughs
Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
- Emily Giffin
But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
- Emily Giffin
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
- Voltaire
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants.
- Raymond Chandler
I must not, like the quietists, reduce all religion to a denial of any specific action, despising all other means, since what makes perfection is God's order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.
- Jean Pierre De Caussade
Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
- Sri Chinmoy
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
- Adam Clarke
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi Jr
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
- Douglas Horton
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
- Owen Feltham
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
- Luis Figo
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
- Ernst Fischer
He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
- Jamie Ford
From character Henry Lee in the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about". Love it!
- Jamie Ford
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
- Michael J Fox
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
- Leo Tolstoy
Perfection is the child of time.
- Joseph Hall
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
- Laurell K Hamilton
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
- Carrie Jones
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
- Gelsey Kirkland
It's all about perfection, isn't it?
- Keira Knightley
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out. However, what meaning is there in perfection? None. Not a bit....After perfection there exists nothing higher. Not even room for creation which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either. Understand? To scientists like ourselves, perfection is despair. - Kurotsuchi Mayuri (Bleach 306)
- Tite Kubo
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
- R D Laing
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
- Anne Lamott
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
- Gottfried Leibniz
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
The secret is in action - here and now.
It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.
Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect
- whatever your idea of perfection may be.
All you need is courage.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
- Lao Tzu
The day of perfection is not scheduled on earth.
- Naty Matos
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
- W Somerset Maugham
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.
- Osho
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
- Fernando Pessoa
Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.
- Pandora Poikilos
Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.
- Robert Reed
The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection
- Murray Rothbard
Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.
- Elizabeth Scott
Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
- William Shawn
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
- Fulton J Sheen
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
- Philip Sidney
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
- Rebecca Solnit
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
- James Stephens
In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no room for imagination. There is no ability to visualize a concept. Perfection is limited by its own nature, which in short, is zero.
- Lionel Suggs
...But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of what perfection is..
- Lionel Suggs
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?
- Michael Swanwick
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
- Wislawa Szymborska
Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.
- Lew Wallace
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
- H G Wells
What happens when perfection isn't good enough?
- Scott Westerfeld
I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.
- Jonny Wilkinson
People keep looking for the perfect one, but perfection is an attribute of God alone.
- Farahad Zama
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
- Emile Zola
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