Quotes About Perfection

Most writers tend to create characters who are like them – only slightly better looking, taller, younger and more witty

If only — so he thought to himself later — Gerda's face had been a little less flawless in its beauty, the beauty of her body would have remained as maddening to his senses as it was at the beginning. But the more he had seen of her the more beautiful her face had grown; until it had now reached that magical level of loveliness which absorbs with a kind of absoluteness the whole aesthetic sense, paralysing the erotic sensibility.

Anselm conceives of God as something than which nothing greater or more perfect can be conceived. Since this idea arises in our minds it certainly has an intellectual existence. But does it have an existence outside of our minds? Anselm argued that it must, for otherwise we fall into a contradiction. For we could imagine something greater than that which nothing greater can be conceived; that is the mental conception we have together, plus the added attribute of real existence.

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expressed But negatives, my love is so. To all which all love, I say no. If any who deciphers best What we know not, ourselves, can know Let him teach me that nothing.

Y por esa puerta entrarán, y en esa casa morarán, donde no habrá ni nubes ni sol, ni oscuridad ni deslumbramiento, sino una luz constante, ni ruido ni silencio, sino una música constante, ni miedos ni esperanzas, sino una ecuanimidad constante, ni amigos ni enemigos, sino unas constantes comunión e identidad, ni fin ni principio, sino una constante eternidad.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's life really is.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife.

In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

People say I have a picture perfect life, and I do

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of fear is unnecessary. Life is not that finicky.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.