All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life if we do not perform totemic acts to keep them on the path...

I don’t buy junk. When I buy something, it’s got to be perfection or I don’t want it. You won’t find me coming home with five cheap suits, one for each day of the week....

The duality of positive and negative becomes subsumed in Oneness. There are no opposites in the totality and absolute perfection of the Oneness that we know as Divine.

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification–crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed,...

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

You knew? How the hell did you know?” he demanded,wondering which bastard in his family had ratted his assout.”It wasn’t too hard to figure out, Trevor,” she murmured, looking totally enthralled with what she was...

No one’s book is perfect.

The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world.

Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections.

Is it better to have something perfect that doesn’t fit or something imperfect that fits?

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

Tate lays her head on my arm, and we both watch her.Our daughter.I love you so much, Sam.I’m looking down at the perfection we created when it hits me.It’s all worth it.It’s the beautiful moments...

Everyone has their own varying means of measuring thing. Sometimes people can agree on something, but other times they can’t.

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.

… one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn’t aspire to the perfection of...

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

She must see that imperfection is perfection to a beautiful perspective.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

…when you’re broken, everything gets a little honester – you make mistakes and don’t give a damn – you give up on perfection, but get real…

I had a dream that I was perfect…I woke up and was still perfect. Aw.

My perfection is in my perfection.

No one is perfect and perfectly holy but God alone”.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Life is perfect as long as you didn’t cheat.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose; it’s the hazardous detour.

You didn’t judge my past. That’s when I knew I couldn’t turn away from you even if I tried…

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost doubted the goodness of God, in not annihilating man on the day he first sinned. “The world...

Give me one manfrom among ten thousandif he is the best

On the way of perfection; often, there are healing steps into the void.

A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, “No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.

It’s not worth it!It’s not workin’!You wanted it to be picture perfect!

Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It’s useless really.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

The height of perfection is mediocrity.

I look through the cage…an absolute beauty of yours…

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian’s...

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

The givers of true love hardly expect perfection

I am just a guy, doing my best to be the best person I can be.And, every once in a while, I fuck up the moment I’m in.Please. Get over it. Get over yourselves. Get...

I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven’t been able to do it alone, that’s defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I’m here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions...

Either nobody’s perfect,or everyone is.

This boy was so far out of my league it was embarrassing. I found myself staring at him, trying to find some minute flaw that might justify dragging him back to my level. Finding nothing,...

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

You have people out here trying to tell you to accept imperfections and that nobody is perfect (except for a dead/make-believe entity?) but if you are telling yourself that you are not perfect, aren’t you...