Quotes About Perfection

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves

Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

Through the perfect karma of good deeds, one meets the Perfect Guru, whose speech is perfect.

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect

Moksha is defined as the steady glow of the Self in perfection.

In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

Free from feverishness or desires in the mind, united with your Being, centered, when you act without expecting something from it, without wanting to grab or take anything, your action becomes perfect and free from blemishes.

All things, by desiring their own perfection, desire God Himself.

A being than which nothing greater can be conceived to exist.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

I pick up my teaspoon and take a small bite, and am transported. The cake is nutty and moist, the cream with the barest hint of rum, the dark chocolate ganache smooth and silky with just enough bitterness, the apricot bringing that perfect amount of tart brightness, cutting through the rich flavors, and making the whole thing sing in the mouth. It is perfectly balanced and absolutely amazing, and I'm mentally making notes to see if I can replicate it.

I'm going to need chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. Since tomorrow is my free night, I figure I will swing by Teresa's and visit, and as I recall, she always loved chocolate too. So tonight? I'm going to do a final test of my triple-chocolate chewies, dark chocolate cookies with white and milk chocolate chips, one of the recipes I'm thinking of including in the proposal, and I just want to make them one more time to be sure they are perfect.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

the desire for perfection is that desire which always makes every pleasure appear incomplete, for there is no joy or pleasure so great in this life that it can quench the thirst in our soul.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Aquella memoria sólo había podido ejercitarse y formarse de aquella manera diabólicamente infalible por medio del eterno secreto de cualquier perfección: la concentración.

Things half done and hints half given are always bad; all the evil in the world comes from half-measures.

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

standards. I don't think Oliver would have

Knitting is still trying to teach me That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.