Quotes About Perfection

He felt extremely responsible for his fans. That's why, instead of showing the best side of himself to them, he went the other way. He said, 'No, I have to be honest -let them know what I am made of. I'm not all that perfect or anything and they have to know that.' (Larry Kane quoting Yoko Ono about John)

Only God is perfect. For the rest of us, there are apologies.

Never choose half of anything just to be safe when you have a chance to have something whole and perfect.

O vocables of love,The end of an end is an echo,A last cry follows a last cry.Finality of finalityIs perfection's touch of folly.

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it

When it comes to time, the perfect is a disarmingly subversive enemy of the good.

We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Café de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk café having coffee or a drink – the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysées was incredible – the chestnut trees – how could one city attain such perfection? Who had dreamed it up? Who had made it all come true? I wanted to see every corner of it.

How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)

Striving for perfection is a good and worthwhile effort. Expecting to actually attain perfection can kill you.

The fully actualized human being is a person who maximizes his or her potential. This activation process attempts to move consciousness from one reality to another, including the incorporation of being aware of multiple realities existing simultaneously. The objective of the actualized integral human being is to unite with the One, the Source, to achieve unity (from the Greek henosis) and to perfect oneself.

Do not let perfection and order become your masters! These are the two most dangerous traps set for the spiritual Murid. True spirituality proceeds from an honoring and awareness of chaos and imperfection. Who would dare untangle a rainforest?

Journey to the Heart of Beauty; do not be obsessed with mental and egoic ideas of form and perfection. Get your hands and feet dirty, dance in the rain, and rejoice in the Life that is Living Itself through the Uniqueness of You!

The perfection of the human state, al-insân al-kâmil, means the perfection of both the masculine and feminine qualities together, and is symbolized by the marriage of Imam 'Ali (the nephew and brother-in-law of Muhammad) and Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad).

The fully actualized human being is the christified human being.

The objective of the actualized integral human being is to unite with the One, the Source, to achieve unity (from the Greek henosis) and to perfect oneself.

The solution: do not pursue perfection (for that is a patriarchal and intellectual notion), rather work on developing each of your qualities and aspects into a Complete Holistic Human Being.

She was perfect; otherwise she was perfect

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

when Marilyn had leaned over his desk and kissed him, this beautiful honey-haired girl, when she came into his arms and then into his bed, James could not quite believe it. The first afternoon they'd spent together, in his tiny whitewashed studio apartment, he marveled at how her body fit so perfectly against his: her nose nestled exactly into the hollow between his collarbones; her cheek curved to match the side of his neck. As if they were two halves of a mold.

everything had to be beautiful and perfect on the outside, no matter what mess lay within

Perfection: that was the goal, and perhaps the Shakers had lived it so strongly it had seeped into the soil itself, feeding those who grew up there with a propensity to overachieve and a deep intolerance for flaws.

Above her the moon was coin-round, sharp and perfect. Beneath her the boat rocked so gently that she could hardly feel it's motion. Looking up at the sky, she felt as if she were floating in space, completely untethered. She could not believe that anything was impossible.

To Lexie, the world seemed nearly perfect, and her fantasies were her real life with all the colors dialed up.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.