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Quotes About Perfection

Striving for perfection is neurotic; striving for excellence is progress. Excellence is continuous improvement. There is nothing that cannot be done better or improved the next time.
~ Shiv Khera
We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. We should find perfection in imperfection... The eternal exists because of non-eternal existence... We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering... Pleasure is not different from difficulty. Good is not different from bad.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, change. That everything changes is the basic truth of each existence. When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The enlightened person is some perfect, desirable character, for himself and for others.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Just because it was done well, doesn't mean it couldn't have been done better.
~ Siddharth Astir
Pamper yourself as if GOD made you the Ambassador of Perfection!!!!!
~ Siddharth Astir
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
~ Sidney Poitier
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own
~ Siegfried Lenz
Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.
~ Simon Van Booy
Everyone knows im perfect. My life is perfect. My clothes are perfect. Even my family is perfect. And although its a complete lie, i've worked my butt off to keep up the appearence that i have it all. The truth, if it were to come out, would destroy my entire picture-perfect image.
~ Simone Elkeles
It reminds me of myself - seemingly perfect on the outside but inside is all a mush.
~ Simone Elkeles
It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.
~ Simonides
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason… The law, which is perfection of reason.
~ Sir Edward Coke
Art is the perfection of nature.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
It's almost too perfect - the poster girl for an illness in the early days of photography sees the world in black and white.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
~ Callie Thorne
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
~ John Stott
Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.
~ Thomas Merton
Love is louder then the pressure to be perfect.
~ Demi Lovato
The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.
~ Gary Chapman
I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.
~ Jennifer Weiner
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality
~ John Stuart Mill
The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.
~ Kerri Walsh
There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.
~ Roger Ebert