Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped… — Patrick Ferriday Copy Share Image
It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim.… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these… — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us -… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
A conscious parent is not one who seeks to fix her child or seek to produce or create the 'perfect' child. This… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
“While the opportunity to improve yourself and your situation is a great thing, our striving to build perfect lives seems to have… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained… — Theodore Martin Copy Share Image
Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Here learn the science of the Saints: All is to be found in the passion of Jesus. Make every effort to remain… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It’s called the pursuit of perfection. The pursuit is the idea that you’ll never be perfect in gymnastics but you can continue… — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect,… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We aren't born with the innate knowledge of how to "do" relationship. Even worse, we've been brainwashed by modern day society to… — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Going to beauty school and art school in Romania helped me to think of why we use makeup, and it's exactly how… — Anastasia Soare Copy Share Image
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
So many people wait around for the stars to align to do what they're here to do. The perfect moment, the perfect… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
![“The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work…” quote by Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b25/edwin-markham-11431_aim_the-future-life-is-where-we-will-go-on-h_1418436.png)
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