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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Perfection is the obstacle of creation
and the enemy of achievement.
- Neale Donald Walsch
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not about perfection -
or a quest for perfection.
Life is about enjoying what we have -
for as long as we have it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure
the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace,
then progress in virtue is progress in each of these
for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us,
progress is always an approach toward it.
- Epictetus
A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
None of us is perfect - and that's OK.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit
of obedience to the laws of life.
- Helen Keller
I got a perfect build for clothes.
I'm a twenty-eight dwarf.
- the movie Love and Death
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
I say that Today is a Perfect Day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Every day is the perfect day to ask yourself
questions about your life goals,
and how you plan to address those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
- Yogi Berra
You are perfect exactly the way you are.
- Werner Erhard
They have come up with a perfect understanding.
He won't try to run her life,
and he won't try to run his, either.
- Anonymous
If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Every day is a Perfect Day when I say it is;
and I say that Today is a Perfect Day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today is a perfect day to be happy.
Every day is a perfect day to be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?
Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight
in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it?
I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others
that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;...
In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself;
and this may be the case in so high a degree,
he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life
which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself.
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love,
and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
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