Quotes About Perfection

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.

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

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

No matter how imperfect your flaws are, you'll always be the perfect person to someone.

Love, truth, kind words & forgiveness have long term implications on making you a person of perfection.

We spend too much time looking for the perfect person to love instead of perfecting the love we give!

Love is finding someone who knows your deepest insecurities but looks at you like youre perfect.

In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

Täydellisyys mitataan puutteilla. Joka ei epäonnistu usein, se ei onnistu koskaan.

God's plans are perfect, but they often look perplexing and involve pain.

Part of this communion with God is praising, adoring, and loving him incessantly for His infinite goodness and perfection.

You can see how, over time, it would be easy for each of us to cross the line and begin to make a virtue of our flaws—simply because the flaws constitute what we think of as "me.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Faithfulness, not perfection, is rewarded by the Lord. That's because we can no more live a sinless life than we can make our children do the same thing. Only our Lord Jesus is he "who knew no sin" (2 Cor. 5:21). He never sinned, but we do, and he knew we would need his help and encouragement to raise our children faithfully as he desires.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

my wife, Judith Johnson Smith, whose quiet courage inspires me; and our children, Alayne and Parker, who are, quite frankly, perfect.

Active and Passive Perfection are the Taoist equivalent of the sufi terms Majesty and Beauty.

then I'd worry that my coffee would be muddy and my croissants burnt and he'd only give me the baguettes with the misshaped ends. Life wouldn't be worth living.

Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection--the kind that never demands it of others.

The powers cannot see those who have put on the perfect light, and they cannot seize them. One puts on the light in the mystery of union.