"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
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"Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved."
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"Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility."
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"In so far as divine love beautifies our souls. And makes us pleasing to His divine Majesty, it is called grace; in so far as it gives us strength to do good, it is called charity; but when it reaches such a degree of perfection, that it makes us not only do the good, but do so carefully, frequently and readily, then it is called devotion."
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"To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection."
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"I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine."
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"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."
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"There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside."
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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many."
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"The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery."
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"The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary."
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"How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else."
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"To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character."
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"What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present."
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"Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere."
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"There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable."
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"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
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"All things are complete within ourselves."
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"Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle"
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