"To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature."
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"If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you."
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"The universe doesn't allow perfection."
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"Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind."
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"The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection."
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"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here."
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"The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like."
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"Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga."
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"Excellence does not require perfection."
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"Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence."
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"Never settle for anything less than your best."
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"In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection."
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"The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable."
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"Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection."
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"The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying."
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"An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet."
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"A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection."
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"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."
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"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."
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"Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time."
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