--- title: "8 Imagine Perfect Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 8 Imagine Perfect quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Imagine Perfect sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/andrew-forsthoefel-94859_entire-life_i-thought-about-how-grim-i-felt-since-le_147751.jpg" --- > [“I thought about how grim I felt since leaving the Navajo Nation, and I tried to imagine my perfect life. Surely it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-forsthoefel/i-thought-about-how-grim-i-felt-since-leaving-the-navajo-nation-and-i/) [Andrew Forsthoefel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-forsthoefel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/andrew-forsthoefel-94859_entire-life_i-thought-about-how-grim-i-felt-since-le_147751.jpg) > [Sometimes when you imagine a perfect person,you realize you have described a person,you have known forever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bakare/sometimes-when-you-imagine-a-perfect-person-you-realize-you-have/) [Bakare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bakare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/bakare-2393_friendship-love_sometimes-when-you-imagine-a-perfect-per_437448.jpg) > [“Doctors and trainers often see perfectly developed bodies, but nobody can even begin to imagine what a perfect \*mind\* would be like;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-nibley/doctors-and-trainers-often-see-perfectly-developed-bodies-but-nobody/) [Hugh Nibley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-nibley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/hugh-nibley-13330_growth_doctors-and-trainers-often-see-perfectly_1159597.jpg) > [The truth is that life can never be what you imagine is perfect simply because perfection is a concept, not a reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melchor-lim/the-truth-is-that-life-can-never-be-what-you-imagine-is-perfect/) [Melchor Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melchor-lim/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24a/melchor-lim-61_idea_the-truth-is-that-life-can-never-be-what_1327505.jpg) > [Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ajahn-sumedho/of-course-we-can-always-imagine-more-perfect-conditions-how-it-should/) [Ajahn Sumedho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ajahn-sumedho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/ajahn-sumedho-38140_awakening_of-course-we-can-always-imagine-more-per_1763005.png) > [Sometimes, when you imagine a perfect guy...you realize you've described a person you've known forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/sometimes-when-you-imagine-a-perfect-guy-you-realize-you-ve-described/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9c/anonymous-1_being-in-love-with-y_sometimes-when-you-imagine-a-perfect-guy_1924091.jpg) > [Imagine how perfect life would be if you didn't have to go to school or work and money did grow on trees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/imagine-how-perfect-life-would-be-if-you-didn-t-have-to-go-to-school/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e50/anonymous-1_life_imagine-how-perfect-life-would-be-if-you_2113176.jpg) > [Sometimes, when you imagine the perfect guy...you end up describing a person you've known forever. ~(Edited)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/sometimes-when-you-imagine-the-perfect-guy-you-end-up-describing-a/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/anonymous-1_imagine_sometimes-when-you-imagine-the-perfect-g_3138016.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagine-perfect/#itemlist", "name": "Imagine Perfect Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I thought about how grim I felt since leaving the Navajo Nation, and I tried to imagine my perfect life. Surely it wasn't this. How could perfection include loneliness and longing, filth and exhaustion, whispers of despair? It seemed there were countless other potential versions of this life that'd be so much better. I could spend hours fantasizing about them, wondering what that perfection might look like someday, wishing it would come soon. I could spend my entire life that way wondering, wishing. It'd be so easy. It was in fact, the inevitable result of believing that perfection was anything other than what already was. 'This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,\" Whitman wrote, \"There is no better than it and now.\"If I couldn't find perfection in this, then what made me think I'd be able to find it tomorrow, next month or two decades from now? Peace had to be an inner perspective, not a specific and temperamental set of external conditions. 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