Quotes About Perfection

You have become so good that every mistake you make has a spotlight on it.

Mistakes unviels our individual flaws that blocks our paths to perfection

If you say, 'I really love this girl except for this one thing--if I could just change this one thing, then everything would be perfect,' then you've already lost her.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Se habla de supermercados del sexo, que tienen un catálogo bastante completo de su oferta porno; pero les falta lo esencial. Y es que el objetivo mayoritario de la búsqueda sexual no es el placer, sino la gratificación narcisista, el homenaje que una pareja deseable rinde a la propia perfección erótica. [...] la meta que se persigue [...] es la embriaguez narcisista de la conquista.

Sí. ¿Y qué? Yo la amé. La amo. Desde el primer momento ese amor fue perfecto, completo. En realidad no se puede decir que el amor aparezca; más bien, se manifiesta. Si se cree en la reencarnación, el fenómeno resulta explicable. La algría de reencontrarse con alguien que ya conocemos, que siempre hemos conocido, desde siempre, en una infinidad de encarnaciones anteriores. Si no se cree, es un misterio.

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing, in any other civilization, in any other epoch, could compare itself to the mobile perfection of a contemporary shopping center functioning at full tilt. I had thus consumed, with joy, shoes most notably; then, gradually, I had grown weary, and I had understood that my life, without this daily input of basic, renewable pleasures, was going to stop being simple.

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

20. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

That's the thing with the real world. It's never going to be perfect, and I don't have control over that. But I can control how I behave in it, and how I let things affect me. I can choose to be perfect in my own way without having to be perfect in everyone else's eyes. Relying on other people to reflect my worth back to me is a fool's errand.

Someone once told me that flaws are what give people real beauty

Maybe becoming a spiritually healthy family is not about becoming a perfect family but rather following a perfect God together. And in doing so, to find peace with Him, our pasts, and our family members.

All that's good and perfect comes from God.

reality is never as perfect as fantasy.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

The ballet dancer may fall, break her leg, and never make the perfect turn, and the chess player may be defeated and never become a champion. But at least in principle, in the world of flow perfection is attainable.

The perfect society would be able to strike a healthy balance between the spiritual and material worlds, but short of aiming for perfection, we can look toward Eastern religions for guidance in how to achieve control over consciousness.