Quotes About Perfection

The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Stones don't walk.They're so perfect they've nowhere to go.

When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect

the fruit of the Spirit doesn't show itself so much when life is a dream, when there is no chaffing, no trials, no suffering, and no compromise. What shows itself in those moments of perfection is the fruit of the flesh

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

If one wants to torture oneself for the sake of torture one may do so, but not for spiritual perfection.

The soul's true happiness lies in experiencing the inner joy, and it will never be fully satisfied with outer, seeming pleasures. Its connection is with God, and nothing short of perfection will ever satisfy it.

Keeper," Bramble said in a syrupy voice, grinning. "Have you met anyone so blasted handsome? " "Hush," said Azalea through her teeth. "He can probably hear you!" "And so dashing," said Bramble, though her tone was a touch lower. "And so perfect." "I've never seen anyone with such...fingers," said Goldenrod. Everyone paused. "Well, yes, his fingers, too," said Bramble.

There were you and Serena, and everything about the two of you was perfect, and so life took a brutal swing at you.

My disappointment had a clear source. I would try to make things perfect and I would fail, over and over again. I couldn't just love someone and be loved back. That was too easy. That didn't feel right. I was more familiar with dissatisfaction. I was more at home with longing. As I moved me things into that dusty, tiny, haunted house, I looked around and thought, "This will never be enough." It was exactly what I wanted.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better

It's irritating when people tell you that you're such good parents you're failing your kid.

loving music didn't have to mean wanting the same song all the time, or believing it perfect, and that what you loved didn't have to add up, let alone define you.

La perfección de la estrategia sería, por tanto, generar una solución al conflicto sin una verdadera lucha».

If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong

I stood up to take some air outside. The stars were brilliant that night, and the cicadas were crying in endless song. If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong?

Steve paid attention to every nuance of the slides, even details that, as far as I could tell, were invisible to the naked eye, like font kerning—which is adjusting the space between letters—and font smoothing to make sure the curves on each font were perfect. He hired a presentation professional, Wayne Goodrich, to help finalize these details and to make sure that at every single stop on the road show, all the pieces were in place to show the presentation and video perfectly.

Esteban Arcadievitch sonrió; conocía perfectamente los sentimientos de Levine y no ignoraba que, para éste, todas las jóvenes del universo se dividían en dos categorías: una compuesta de todas las jóvenes existentes, llenas de todas las debilidades humanas: las señoritas comunes. La otra, formada solamente por 'ella', sin la menor imperfección y por encima de la humanidad entera.

Moreover, there is so much more that needs to be said; but book writing is like picture painting in this regard: it can never be "done," never "perfected." One must simply find a good stopping place, and I pray that I have chosen such a place to stop working on this particular project.

The imperfect squares would be sorted out of his bowl before he poured in the milk.

But there was a flip side to his fastidiousness. He saw that now. It was a nose-in-the-air way of moving through the world. In every smoothed wrinkle, every perfected motion, there was an air of moral judgment, though he didn't intend it. There were people, he implied, who lived sloppy lives, and then there were people like him. ~Gilley

Maybe there weren't fairytales, or dreams didn't often really come true, but this moment felt very close. As close as it gets to perfect in an imperfect world.

All things in God are spontaneous.

Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.