Perfection Quotes - Page 25

• We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Pride, Joy

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• The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

  Richard Rohr

  Order, Joy, Enemy

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• Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness - mine, yours, ours - need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life

  Parker J. Palmer

  Dream, Mean, Knowing

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are.

  Talisa Soto

  Important, Doe, Humans

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• The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Biblical, Discovery

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• Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

  Jonathan Swift

  Simplicity, Style, Performances

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.310

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• Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Abstinence, Reason, Abstaining

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• A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Desire, Degrees

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.186

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• Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Mind, Soundness

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), James Thomson (gent.) (1766). “The Commentaries of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus. Translated from the Greek, by Mr. Thomson”, p.99

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• In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Maturity, Perfect

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• He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Excellence, May

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• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Strong, Men, Understanding

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• The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Simplicity, Progress

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• It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

  Anais Nin

  Forgiving, Innocence, Judgment

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• Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Gold, Wish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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• Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Happiness, Christian, Son

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.177

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• Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Men, Doe

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

  Joseph Addison

  Ornaments, Charity

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.35

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• How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Men, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1842). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.171

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• A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

  Joseph Addison

  God, Discovery, Mind

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.359

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• The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

  Joseph Addison

  God, Deities, Moral

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• Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings,
  The noble mind's distinguishing perfection
  That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her
  And imitates her actions where she is not:
  It is not to be sported with.

  Joseph Addison

  Kings, Law, Ties

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes”, p.364

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• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Imagination, Support, Fancy

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

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• The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

  Joseph Addison

  Soul, Touching, Lines

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

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• With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Soul, Astonishment

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