Perfection Quotes — Page 30

Philosopher, Politician

“Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.”

Art Perfection Society

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Wayne Dyer

Author, Motivational Speaker

“If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.”

Healing Perfection Health

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Richard Bach

Author

“Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.”

Numbers Perfection

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Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion Designer, Photographer

“Beauty with character ages better than perfection.”

Character Age

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Saint Augustine

Theologian, Philosopher

“It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.”

Perfection Function Imperfection

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William Faulkner

Novelist, Poet, Playwright

“Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.”

Perfection Memorable Airports

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

“We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.”

Perfection Moral Substance

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

“What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.”

Perfection Selfish Free Gifts

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Truman Capote

Author, Journalist

“I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.”

Thinking Perfection Terrible

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .”

Struggle Perfection Morality

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.”

Lying Dark Perfection

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.”

Men Sweet Perfection

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