Perfection Quotes - Page 28

• when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Hands, Fire

  Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

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• What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Want, Should

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• At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Joy, Suffering

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• Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Ideas

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• There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Suffering

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• Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Perfect

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• Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Unattainable, Strive, This Life

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• To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

  J. G. Holland

  Struggle, Track, Humanity

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.112

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• The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Grief, Men

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

  Owen Feltham

  Change, Names, Way

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

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• This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Divinity, Way, Accepting

  Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.45, SUNY Press

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• If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

  Candace Wheeler

  Childhood, Humanity, Would Be

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• Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

  Alex Turner

  Song, Writing, Missing

  Source: www.gq.com

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• A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

  Joy Browne

  Life Changing, Mean, Dedication

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• Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Angel, Names, Stronger

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• A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

  Elias Hasket Derby

  Agriculture, Doe, Soil

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• The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.

  Donald Kuspit

  Art, Mean, Mirrors

  Donald Kuspit (2013). “Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

  Frances Osborne

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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• I think of every double-decker loop as another loop towards my death. And that is why I've always thought of the double-decker loop as - each loop as a continuous and individualized search for perfection.

  Timothy Levitch

  Thinking, Loops

  "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.

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• With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Uplifting, Running, Essence

  The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

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• Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Car, Morality, Worship

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 40), 1937.

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• The soul,
  Advancing ever to the source of light
  And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns
  In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

  Henry Ware, Jr.

  Light, Soul, Reign

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• You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Feelings, Ordinary, Time Left

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• I'm quite proud of my rear... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection.

  Shakira

  Men, Thinking, Appreciate

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