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Quotes About Ideal

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.
~ Ralph Barton Perry
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
~ Edward Abbey
if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
~ Isabel Allende
El empleado ideal sería una persona que no tenga lazos, compromisos ni ataduras emocionales preexistentes y que además las rehúya a futuro.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
ask always what's the best real possibility, not what's the ultimate ideal imagining.
~ Adam Gopnik
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt.
~ Alain de Botton
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves.
~ Alain de Botton
Doyurulmay? bekleyen gereksinimler kimi zaman halüsinasyonlar doÄŸurur: Susuzluk suyu hayal eder, aÅŸka duyulan gereksinim de ideal bir erkek ya da kad?n?.
~ Alain de Botton
Design is based upon resolving how someone is going to use something. Great design is describing the very best experience for them, then moving towards that ideal.
~ Alan Moore
man should be his own ideal and champion, however long it takes him to arrive there.
~ Alan Moore
Faith, to his mind, was a willed asserting of the sacred. If it were made more or less than this then it was mere belief, as children will believe the goblin tale they hear for just so long as it is being told. To hold belief in a material fact was only vanity, easily shattered, where the ideal was a truth eternal in whatever form expressed.
~ Alan Moore
It's a wonderful bonus to do what one enjoys, but it's not necessary. Far more important is knowing how to navigate the difficulties and disappointments in life and work, without setting up a romantic ideal of a 'perfect' job;
~ Derren Brown
I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn't enough for the job. I felt the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn't, what only a few in each century could – whether blessed or cursed in spirit. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else's opinion.
~ Dick Francis
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian community is not an ideal we have to realize, but rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. The more clearly we learn to recognize that the ground and strength and promise of all our community is in Jesus Christ alone, the more calmly we will learn to think about our community and pray and hope for it.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus does not want to be the only perfect human being at the expense of humankind. He does not want, as the only guiltless one, to ignore a humanity that is being destroyed by its guilt; he does not want some kind of human ideal to triumph over the ruins of a wrecked humanity.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The existence of any Christian communal life essentially depends on whether or not it succeeds at the right time in promoting the ability to distinguish between a human ideal and God's reality, between spiritual and emotional community.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The universality of the church was illustrated in a marvelously effective manner. White, black, yellow members of religious orders orders—everyone was in clerical robes united under the church. It truly seems ideal.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Keller wakes up the morning after the election thinking that he doesn't know his own country anymore. we're not, he thinks, who I thought we were. Not who I thought we were at all.... What depresses him is loss of an ideal, an identity, an image of what this country is. Or was.
~ Don Winslow
The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
~ H. H. Asquith