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"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
"We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities."
"Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
"I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it."
"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist"
"In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one."
"Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make."
"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty."
"Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself."
"Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence."
"I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I havent yet done. When I was younger I thought maybe Id reached that peak. But Im 86 now, and if I make it through to next month, Ill be 87. And now I know it can never be perfect, it can never be exactly what it should be, so you got to keep going further, getting better."
"Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security."
"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."
"People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect."
"I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them perfect. If I can sit down and write something in five minutes, then that's great. And if that doesn't happen, then either it doesn't get finished or else it's usually not any good."
"In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil."
"The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you."
"We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments."
"I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect."
"With the right foundation, any woman can look like she naturally has even, perfect skin"
