Quotes About Perfection

Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection— / We shall get ourselves rather disliked.

Go, my songs, seek your praise from the young and from the intolerant, Move among the lovers of perfection alone. Seek ever to stand in the hard Sophoclean light And take your wounds from it gladly.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

She picked up a fork and used it to flip over the catfish fillet she'd left frying in her daddy's cast-iron skillet. It was flaky, golden, and perfect, exactly as she'd intended.

The life of man is the incessant walk of nature, wherein every moment is a step towards death. Even our growing to perfection is a progress to decay. Every thought we have is a sand running out of the glass of life.

La perfection, la sainteté recherchée par les taoïstes, c'est l'union mystique avec le tao éternel: c'est 's'effacer vivant dans cette présence originelle et souveraine qui enveloppe tout sans être jamais enveloppé', dans le 'sans forme qui engendre toutes les formes, dans le tao qui possède une vie éternelle'. Et c'est atteindre, du même coup, l'immortalité.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Take advantage of the awareness of perfection in your mind. See perfection in everything around you. See if you can discover your true feelings when listening to music. Make happiness your goal. … Find out exactly what you want in life. Ask your mind for inspiration about everything. … You must find your own way.

If only the Powerful Choleric would open his mind to examine his weaknesses and admit he had a few, he could become the perfect person he thinks he is.

For Right Work I have a perfect work In a perfect way; I give a perfect service For perfect pay. For Freedom from all Bondage I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free!

Her sorrows went up into regions of sublimity, of which we can form only the vaguest conceptions. They went down into profound depths of the soul, which we cannot explore because they have no parallel in ourselves. They were heightened by the unappreciable perfection of her nature, by the exuberant abundance of her grace, by the exceeding beauty of Jesus, and above all by His Divinity.

LA VIDA ES UN DON DE DIOS De Dios nos viene el don que, para nosotros, los contiene a todos: La vida. – la vida física, intelectual y moral. Empero, la vida no se mantiene por sí misma. Aquel que nos la ha dado, ha dejado a cargo nuestro el cuidado de mantenerla, desarrollarla y perfeccionarla.

Au premier mariage on cherche la perfection, au second on cherche la vérité.

U ljudskom bi?u ne postoji savršenstvo, ali se može biti savršen idiot ako tome težiš.

God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

GOD'S PLANS ARE BEST As for God, His way is perfect. PSALM 18:30

We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.

We can't fathom what God has in store for us when He makes all creation new. Believe it by faith and share with those who still doubt that they, too, can be perfected in Heaven by turning to Christ and abandoning their unobtainable satisfaction on earth.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don't exist, but there's always one guy that is perfect for you.

If your life were absolutely perfect, how would it look to you?

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.