A Perfect World Quotes

• Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

  Joyce Meyer

  Perfect, Excellence, World

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• God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.

  Bernie Siegel

  Compassion, Perfect, Suffering

  "The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Perfect, World, Boring

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• In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.

  Dennis Franz

  Taken, Perfect, Would Be

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• In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Independent, Unique, Perfect

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• The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

  Irena Sendler

  Love, Inspirational, Humility

  "Holocaust Hero Turns 97" by Jim Sciutto, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2007.

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• Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Mean, Perfect, Doe

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• The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

  Byron Katie

  Perfect, Mind, World

  "Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, 2002.

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• In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

  Ze Frank

  Perfect, World

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• In a perfect world, we wouldn't have any nuclear weapons. But it's not a perfect world. In fact, it's a very dangerous world.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Perfect, World, Dangerous

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

  Marc Jacobs

  Perfect, World

  "Enchanted" by Ariel Levy, www.newyorker.com. September 01, 2008.

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• Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Marriage, Memories, Real

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

  Bill Willingham

  Perfect, World, Tyranny

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• Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

  Ellis Peters

  Trust, Imperfect World, Too Much

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.492, Head of Zeus Ltd

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  Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

  Richard Rohr

  Maturity, Imperfect World, Ability

  Richard Rohr (1996). “Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections”, p.177, Gracewing Publishing

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• I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Special You, Perfect

  Interview with Mark Marvel, anthonykiedis.net. October 1994.

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• The perfect world for me is to find some sort of inner peace. I believe that a man that walks with God can walk anywhere.

  Immortal Technique

  Believe, Men, Perfect

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hate, Believe, Past

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March, 1992.

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• Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

  Winston Churchill

  Imperfect World, Goal, Brainstorming

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Struggle, Believe

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

  Steven Pinker

  Perfect, World, Naive

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• But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

  Mario Testino

  Fashion, People, Perfection

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• I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

  Leonard Cohen

  Moon, Two, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart

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