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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Perfection

"There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, "I will destroy the world." It [can] never happen. There must be one God. The soul attains to perfection; [it becomes] almost omnipotent [and] omniscient. This is the worshipper. Who is the worshipped? He, the Lord God Himself, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient, and so on. And above all, He is Love. How is [the soul] to attain this perfection? By worship."

Two Soul Perfection
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Perfection

"Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others."

Fall Perfection Envy
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Perfection

"It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."

Art Fear Perfection
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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Perfection

"You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection."

Art Doe Perfection
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Ming-Dao Deng Author
Perfection

"When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake."

Regret Perfection Fleeting
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Pliny the Younger Lawyer, Author
Perfection

"It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any."

Art Skills Perfection
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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
Perfection

"But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful."

Beautiful Perfection Melancholy
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Perfection

"We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart."

Heart Silence Perfection
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Denis Diderot Philosopher, Writer
Perfection

"What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days."

World Order Perfection
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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Perfection

"I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection."

Perfection Walks Situation
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
Perfection

"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."

Perfection Simplicity Add
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