Quotes About Perfection

Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give. I'm only sorry it took me so long to read it.

Ha leído lo suficiente para saber que no hay antología en que todas las historias sean perfectas. Unas dan en el clavo. Otras fallan. Con suerte, hay una excepcional. De todos modos, al final la gente solo se acuerda de las excepcionales, y no durante mucho tiempo.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Sometimes, I would be in so much pain. The only thing that kept me from wanting to die was the fact that I could leave my body and be in a body that worked perfectly for a while—better than perfectly, actually—with a set of problems that were not my own.

The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should at once become perfect; if this does not happen, then the believer must be a fraud and a hypocrite. He thinks that adherence to a religion is the end of the road, whereas it is in fact only the beginning of a very long and sometimes very rough road. He looks for consistency in religious people, however aware he may be of inconsistencies in himself

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

We must look into ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, and stands before us. Only then will justice be served.

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

Don't run from the struggles of marriage. Embrace them. Grow in them. Draw nearer to God because of them. Through them you will reflect more of the spirit of Jesus Christ. And thank God he has placed you in a situation where your spirit can be perfected.

Do you know how gemologists tell a fake emerald from a real one? The fakes are perfect. Real emeralds have flaws. None of us is perfect.

Goals are dreams with time lines. Turn your vision into action with goal setting. Seek progress rather than perfection.

remember that if God is perfect Love, then He is not

if God is Love, can He also be hate? If God is really perfect Love, then can He also be flawed? If God is a Creator, could He then be vengeful against that which He Himself had created? Once the answer to such questions is clearly seen to be of course not, a long closed door has been nudged open. In the state of semi-dualism, your mind has begun to lose some of its hidden but terrible fear of God.

Burning with tender love is not really an image for someone who has warmed mercury over a gentle flame. In slowness, gentleness, and hope we have the hidden force of moral perfection and of material transmutation.

feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just to be life going absolutely perfectly

Trapped mainly by wanting things to be exactly as they are, only better

Perfect Day: It was a day filled with the glow of ordinary things & we passed them quietly from hand to hand for a long time & someone said she had picked a perfect day to be born & I think all of us felt the same.

as he read through the Levitical laws, he received a vision of Yahweh's holiness so pure and intense, it was like a blinding light that pierced his soul. Israel was a royal priesthood of Yahweh's perfection. And he understood again that Yahweh's laws were not restrictive, but freeing. They were the boundaries for experiencing the best that the creator offered to humanity.

The first lesson I learned from Harry came before he even arrived: if you wait for perfection, it'll probably never come, and what will fill the void is regret.