Heaven Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

— Mabel Osgood Wright

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Perfection is an ideal that helps in removing, not demeaning imperfections.

— Tasneem Hameed

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving…

— Laura Schlessinger

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order…

— Albert Camus

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

— Susan Stebbing

You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist movement -…

— Murray Bookchin

“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you…

— David Foster Wallace

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -…

— Norman Rockwell