Quotes About Perfection

No one can obtain this grace without putting on perfect light and becoming perfect light. Whoever puts on light will enter [the place of rest]. This is perfect [light, and] we [must] become [perfect humans] before we leave [the world].

This is what is truly worthy and mighty, and we shall enter through symbols that are weak and insignificant. They are weak compared to perfect glory.

If what is visible to you is obscure to you, how can you comprehend what is invisible? If deeds of truth visible in the world are difficult for you to accomplish, how will you accomplish things of the exalted majesty and fullness, which are invisible?5 How will you be called workers? You are beginners and have not attained the greatness of perfection.

Their voices fit together so perfectly, it makes him, for the first time, actually like the concept of perfection.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Why did perfect feel broken?

I don't have any experience with," she faltered, "children like Lily." "Most people don't. It's the demand for perfection in our society and the definition of that perfection that blocks out all other possibilities.

The extreme idealist or formalist thinks of language in terms of how completely it represents the tiger, and since it can never fully get that right, would rather lapse into silence than speak.

Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions.

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know no one is perfect including ourselves so we look beyond someones imperfections and concentrate on their perfections and our happiest shines thru. As long as one's HEART is in the right place and is perfect for your liking then everything else that is near perfect or perfect about them is a bonus and everything else....secondary, they don't matter.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect lover.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

Paradoxically, all these wonderful dimensions that we want for our being are completely missing, being a hope, a dream about the perfection of the being.

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

For memory has painted this perfect day With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.