Perfect Quotes - Page 21

• There is nothing perfect...only life.

  Sue Monk Kidd

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• Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Fall, Lightning

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• They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stupid, Safety, Laughing

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.77, Xist Publishing

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• Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Weight Loss, Loser

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• Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

  Sarah Dessen

  Regret, Littles, Trouble

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.114, Penguin

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• Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.

  Jane Lindskold

  Looks, Done, Blind

  Jane Lindskold (2002). “Through Wolf's Eyes”, p.132, Macmillan

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• By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Love You, Reality

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.126, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

  Haruki Murakami

  Sputnik, World, Pointless Things

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.theguardian.com. 1999.

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• The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, California, Tree

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.17, Penguin

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• A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1 (1894)

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• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

  Markus Zusak

  Friendship, Inspiring, Snow

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.55, RH Childrens Books

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• Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

  Helen Rowland

  Heart, Men, Broken

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Numbers, Balance, Three

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• Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.285, Penguin

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• Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

  Iris Murdoch

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.156, Penguin

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our 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

  Learning, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

  A. A. Milne

  Silly, Two, Piglet

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness. The Lord knows your circumstances and your challenges. He said to Paul and to all of us, 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' And like Paul we can answer: 'My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me'(2 Corinthinans 12:9)".

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Grace, Challenges

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• Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Money, Angel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?

  Shannon Hale

  Beautiful, Girl, Kissing

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.379, A&C Black

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• On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Weekend, Wind

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• It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

  Anthony Burgess

  Giving, Littles, Evening

  "Fictional character: Alex". "A Clockwork Orange", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

  Truman Capote

  Flaws

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• You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Dream, Real

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