Quotes About Perfection

Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life - we're striving for this perfection, and it's so unhealthy because there's no such thing as perfection.

In some cases, newlyweds want so badly for things to be perfect that they ignore warning signs, both in themselves and each other.

I cook and wash, cook and wash. When I am done, the kitchen is like a mirror.

So there I was sitting next to this vision. Esmerelda Belmont. During the closing song, I held her hand and never let go. I'd met perfection. "We married six months later and enjoyed eight years of wedded bliss before she left this world for the great beyond, letting go of my hand for the very first time. "I miss her every day.

And his kiss wasn't at all like his smile. It wasn't crooked or one-sided. It was quite simply... perfect.

I wish I was perfect as you think I am. I wish I were good. I'm not. I want to be good enough. For you,

Parents are satisfied only if their children are gifted or exceptional (or diagnosed with a treatable problem that the right pill cocktail can restore to excellence).

And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed; saw a patient endurance that was purely fictitious, and conceived of a loyalty far beyond the limits of Angela's nature.

Memory, the old room was haunted by it — a man dying with love in his eyes that was deathless — a woman holding him in her arms, speaking words such as lovers will speak to each other. Memory — they're the one perfect thing about me.

I want a perfect garden.... I want a perfect soul

La imperfección busca la perfección. En cambio, la perfección en si misma es estéril.

The very idea that a Security Control has to be absolutely perfect and fool proof is flawed. The value of a Security control increases as the time and skill needed to exploit it increases.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

He was a poet and hated the approximate.

Animals have attained such perfection in their existence, while man has never known such tranquility. I have always believed that animals listen to one perfect voice — nature's voice — and do as it bids them. We, on the other hand, listen only to ourselves, and we do as we please. Our ego, our pride, is generally our instructor, instead of reality, intellect, or even common sense. We live our lives superficially, led by our personalities.

architect Mies van der Rohe is credited with saying, "God is in the details." Delivering

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. —CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

The reality is more excellent than the report.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Perfection exists no where, because we all live in fragments - mental, psychological, physical, spiritual. Being total is an art which takes many lives to master!

It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

Such was the quality of goldsmithery that a Dutch captain would write: "The thread and texture of their hatbands and chaining is so fine that … our ablest European artists would find it difficult to imitate them.