"Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed."
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"I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny."
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"All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any."
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"O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect."
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"A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light"
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"But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'."
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"I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?"
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"The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy."
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"Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it."
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"When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world."
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"Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation."
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"All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made."
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"And never resist a perfect moment."
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"Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God."
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"Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well."
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"She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect."
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"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?"
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"You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it."
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"I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that."
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"We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can."
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