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"Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss."
"It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing."
"There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are advocating a deeper study of his philosophies. Confucius' ideals stand true even today. His philosophy on how to be a Junzi or the perfect gentleman is based on the simple ideology of love and tolerance."
"There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking."
"God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality."
"I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate."
"Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will."
"The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity."
"The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious."
"Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal."
"The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms."
"For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect."
"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman."
"Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'"
"Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way."
"Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him."
"Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do."
"Candy Crowley's hair is PERFECT!!"
"My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well."
"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
