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"I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world."
"Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen."
"The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly."
"Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection"
"People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music."
"Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs."
"When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being."
"His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black."
"The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace."
"In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas."
"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."
"The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!"
"Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love."
"I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well"
"Your generosity is more important than your perfection."
"Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect."
"In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy."
"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."
"Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted."
"God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection."
