c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
So from now on, screw "perfect." Forget for a while about what kind of person you want to be, and just be the best version of the person you are. Figure out which of your classmates you genuinely like (not who you want to like you), and get to know them by telling your own stories and listening to theirs. Hang out with the people you think are cool, not the people you'd like to be considered cool by. Do things because they interest you, not because they make you look interesting... and then, take stock in a month and see whether you're not happier, healthier, and working on some actual friendships with other imperfect-but-lovely humans.
— Kat Rosenfield
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.
— Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems
Perfect was my only option.
— Kiera Cass, The One
This guy.This fucking guy.
— Matt Fraction, Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick
Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.
— Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
Perfection’s unattainable but it isn’t unapproachable.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.
— Sri Chinmoy
Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.
— Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
The eye always fills in the imperfections.
— Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.
— Marty Rubin
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
— Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot
Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it
— Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
You are perfect, Avery. Just like you are, flaws and everything.
— Shana Norris, The Boyfriend Thief
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
— Thomas   Moore, A Life At Work: The Joy Of Discovering What You Were Born To Do
I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
yearning n. and adj.At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Nothing in life has any business being perfect.
— James Goldman
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.He walked on, waiting to be spoken to, trailing his ashplant by his side. Its ferrule followed lightly on the path, squealing at his heels. My familiar, after me, calling, Steeeeeeeeeeeephen! A wavering line along the path. They will walk on it tonight, coming here in the dark. He wants that key. It is mine. I paid the rent. Now I eat his salt bread. Give him the key too. All. He will ask for it. That was in his eyes.--After all, Haines began ...Stephen turned and saw that the cold gaze which had measured him was not all unkind.--After all, I should think you are able to free yourself. You are your own master, it seems to me.--I am a servant of two masters, Stephen said, an English and an Italian.--Italian? Haines said.A crazy queen, old and jealous. Kneel down before me.--And a third, Stephen said, there is who wants me for odd jobs.--Italian? Haines said again. What do you mean?--The imperial British state, Stephen answered, his colour rising, and the holy Roman catholic and apostolic church.--I can quite understand that, he said calmly. An Irishman must think like that, I daresay. We feel in England that we have treated you rather unfairly. It seems history is to blame.The proud potent titles clanged over Stephen's memory the triumph of their brazen bells: ET UNAM SANCTAM CATHOLICAM ET APOSTOLICAM ECCLESIAM: the slow growth and change of rite and dogma like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars.
— James Joyce
Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.
— Peter Prange, The Philosopher's Kiss
Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at last—the taste of a drink from a cold, pure spring.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect
There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.
— Edward E. Rosenbaum
True Dragons are among the Universe's most perfect beings. This is a useful bit of information. Squirrel it away like a nugget of Fafnir's gold
—  take it out and burnish it now and then as we proceed.
Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.
— Robert Reed, Marrow
Look you wanna know the truth? I don’t really care about thestats or the cup or the trophy or anything like that. In fact even the games aren’t that important to me. What matters to me is the perfect throw, making the perfect catch, the perfect step and block. Perfection. That's what it's about. It's those moments. When you can feel the perfection of creation. The beauty the physics you know the wonder of mathematics. The elations of action and reaction and that is the kind of perfection that I want to be connected to.
— Samuel Anders
I tried to make my life colorful with Red, Green and Blue....... ohh god... my perfection in blending made it white !!!
— Saket Assertive
Imperfection is Perfection.Small errors required to display the true quality of gaps in between to create meaning and essence of reality. What good is anything if it isn't flawed and produces only that which emit ideal situations.
— Shlomo Reuben
Perfection's stuck.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Perfect is a Preference, Not! a possibility.
— Devin Murphy
I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and discovery.
— Stewart Stafford
Being perfect is what's stopping you from being good.
— Isabella Fons
Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing," its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering enough chips on time, Jobs stormed into a meeting and started shouting that they were "fucking dickless assholes." The company ended up getting the chips to Apple on time, and its executives made jackets that boasted on the back, "Team FDA.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Jobs obsessed over every aspect of the new building, from the overall concept to the tiniest detail regarding materials and construction. "Steve had this firm belief that the right kind of building can do great things for a culture," said Pixar's president Ed Catmull. Jobs controlled the creation of the building as if he were a director sweating each scene of a film. "The PIxar building was Steve's own movie," Lasseter said.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Imperfection contains more information than perfection.
— R.A.Delmonico
Perfection isn't something that we can see and it isn't something that we can touch, but it exists here on Earth.It resides in each and everyone of us within our hearts.It's called LOVE!
— Anthony T. Hincks
It is common to come across a perfectionist at work. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate
—  life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer
The best part of being unique is not having to be perfect.
— Sofi Benitez, Dog Daze
I wonder how two imperfect people can create perfect love.
— Vatsal Surti, On Love
Hqve you never heard of priests proclaim that the meek will inherit the earth and wondered if kings of old didn't smile to hear it? Your reward comes after death. Nirvana. The wheel of life turns and we are elevated from animals to women, from women to men, from men to kings, from kings to gods, from gods to... perfection. And what is perfection now? Not crucifixion, not poverty endured patiently on the mountaintop. No--the perfect life is to have an annual salary of £120,000, an Aston Martin, a £1.6million-pound home, a wife, two children and at least two foreign holidays a year. Perfection is an idol built upon oppression. Perfection is the heaven that kept the masses suppressed; the promise of a future life that quells rebellion. Perfection is the self-hatred an overweight woman feels when she sees a slim model on TV; perfection is the resentment the well-paid man experiences when he beholds a miserable billionaire. Perfection kills. Perfection destroys the soul.
— Claire North, The Sudden Appearance of Hope
How can you complain? When perfection is all there is.
— Mahrukh
No one is perfect no matter how hard they pretend they are, so don’t compare yourself to them,” Will says.
— If I Wake
But it's not Kit's physique that I'm talking about. It's the way he is, the confidence he has that is beyond his years. He speaks softly-I've never seen him lose his temper or shout-and when he walks into a room, It's like he's a magnet and everything, including the air, is drawn to him. Although I know he can strip an automatic weapon in under ten seconds and is trained to lea d men in battle, I've also seen him siniging lullabies to his baby nieces while he cradles them in his arms, and jump off a pier to save a drowning dog.
— Mila Gray, Come Back to Me
He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.
— Henry Cloud
A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media’s depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don’t have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.
— Erica Sehyun Song
If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.
— Henry David Thoreau, The Quotable Thoreau
Perfect is the enemy of done.
— Catherine Carrigan
Imperfection makes perfect
— Zenon
For some reason we feel we should be perfect, and forget that we learn through our mistakes. Our need to be perfect and our need to control the outcome of events work together to keep us petrified when we think about making a change or attempting a new challenge.
— Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Your first step towards perfection is acknowledging your imperfections.
— Wahab H. Butt
God can never be perfectly present to us here below on account of our flesh. But he can be almost perfectly absent from us in extreme affliction. This is the only possibility of perfection for us on earth. That is why the Cross is our only hope.
— Simone Weil, Waiting for God
We're told perfection doesn't exist, but that couldn't be true. Maybe perfection couldn't last, but it certainly could occur. It had to, because as I stood there staring at this beautifully flawed girl and realized she was mine, no moment had ever felt so perfect.
— Jeannine Allison, Unveiling The Sky
Worst thing about being a perfectionist.. Everything you do might look amazing in someone else eyes but in your heart never truly satisfied.
— Emmie Lee Dean
If it seems perfect, you're being played with.
— Gina Wings, Secrets of a Perfect Hair Color: Adventures of an Urban Woman
Practice creates more connections among the neurons, which push you a little further towards perfection.
— Abhijit Naskar
You should be able to quit ten things you're good at to master one thing you're best at.
— Sarvesh Jain, The Awakening Wisdom of Life: Probably the best Quotation Book in the world
When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.
— Roshan Sharma
And it's almost too perfect. Almost too Disney.
— Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.
— Andreas Feininger
No matter how pale and pure and perfect you are, the moon is even more perfect.
— T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer
The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .
— John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
I am not Perfect, but I am a Limited Edition
— Cecil Pratt
Why should I be perfect.. when I'm already imperfectly perfect. And that's what is unique and perfect about me.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
— Charlotte Brontë, The Professor
I am THAT, I AM! Why should I be perfect.. when I'm already imperfectly perfect. And that's what is unique and perfect about me. I love that I am that I love that I am!
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
Perfection exists no where, because we all live in fragments - mental, psychological, physical, spiritual. Being total is an art which takes many lives to master!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
I do think imperfection is underrated
— Helena Bonham Carter
With bated breath we wait for the scent of perfection, accompanied by the freshness of love.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
If there is no one who is perfect,So there is no one better than you
— Mohammed Sekouty
Perfection only exists in babies and pastries.
— Gayle Wray
That's the lesson in this for people like me who sometimes get wound up about doing things perfectly: 90 percent of the people in your life won't know the difference between, say, fresh and frozen, or handmade and store-bought, and the 10 percent who do notice are just as stressed-out as you are, and your willingness to choose simplicity just might set them free to do the same.
— Shauna Niequist, Bread and   Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
They succeed not because they are perfect but because they do not let their imperfections stand in their way to success.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.
— Kiera Cass, The Crown
Things aren’t perfect. They are far, far from it,but they are getting there, and I wasn’t looking back. Not when there were so many good things in the future.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Don't Look Back
I am a person. I am not always happy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; sometimes I feel sad, sometimes I feel angry. Sometimes I see brokenness in the world and I feel like I'm dying inside because I want to fix it! I am a person. I am not continuously grateful for everything and everyone 100% of the time. Because sometimes, I don't feel grateful! Sometimes I feel betrayed, other times I feel deceived. Because I am a person. And I am tired of the schools of thought and the judgmental eyes that offer up their plates of useless opinion when I am not 100% floating up there in false pretenses of perfection. I do not want to be false. I want to be a person. And I want to feel and I want to think, and no, not everything in life is something to be grateful for; and no, not everything in the world is something to be happy about. I am a person. My face can do a lot of things aside from smiling. My face can look peaceful, it can look thoughtful, it can look Divine. I can frown and sometimes my eyebrows are scrunched up in the middle; that's because I'm thinking! I am a person. A person that is so much more than what popular opinion expects is the definition of perfection. But I AM perfect. I am perfect the very way that I am. And I would never want to be only what popular thought would expect of me. I am so much more than that.
— C. JoyBell C.
It was the most perfect moment in my life.It was the last perfect moment in my life.
— Cecelia Ahern, Flawed
There’s no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it’d be rather boring.
— Lorraine Heath, In Bed with the Devil
Being always right is not always right in the wrong places.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
To find perfect ripeness, catch it.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I take your name whenever i give example of perfection...
— shivangi lavaniya
Don't try and perfect yourself for one person. Wait for the one who loves your imperfections and make you feel perfect.
— Atul Purohit
Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.
— Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders
At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Perfection can be a mask for imperfection.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No matter how many hours you spend to render something flawless, somebody will always be able to find fault with it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who choose to fake perfection.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
You are perfect and have no synonym
— John J. Geddes
Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.
— Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena
You are perfectly imperfect, and that made me fall for you.
— Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Perfection can mask imperfection.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Perfection can hide a lot of warts.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.
— Palle Oswald
Perfection is, after all, a form of banality.
— Elisa Braden, Desperately Seeking a Scoundrel
Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
— Alexandre Dumas
I'm afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
Turn to your neighbor and tell him, 'Neighbor, God is good and everything He does is perfect.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
Professionalism is a key to Perfectionism…
— Yogesh Chauhan
Continuous Improvement is the way which always heads towards the Perfection.
— Yogesh Chauhan
Japan!everything in details perfection.
— Baris Gencel
Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate
—  life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer
I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever.
— Scarlet Risque
Life is about connection, not perfection.
— Luke  Taylor
The seeker for perfection must discover in his own life the reflection of the inner light.
— Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
It must be really difficult to be normal.
— Cass van Krah
And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows... but even taking that into account, Noah was pretty much perfect.
— Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out of all scale in relation to a normal human body; its lines were so long, so fragile, so exaggerated that she looked like a stylized drawing of a woman and made the correct proportions of a normal being appear heavy and awkward beside her. She wore a plain gray suit; the contrast between its tailored severity and her appearance was deliberately exorbitant—and strangely elegant.She let the finger tips of one hand rest on the railing, a narrow hand ending the straight imperious line of her arm. She had gray eyes that were not ovals, but two long, rectangular cuts edged by parallel lines of lashes; she had an air of cold serenity and an exquisitely vicious mouth. Her face, her pale gold hair, her suit seemed to have no color, but only a hint, just on the verge of the reality of color, making the full reality seem vulgar. Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
— Ayn Rand
She was 3/4 perfection and 1/4 broken glass.
— Jonathan Carroll
...Is it an inspiring sight to see a man commit a heroic gesture, and then learn that he goes to vaudeville shows for relaxation? Or see a man who’s painted a magnificent canvas—and learn that he spends his time sleeping with every slut he meets?”“What do you want? Perfection?”“—or nothing. So, you see, I take the nothing.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
There was something else,--something quite undefinable, that gave a singular glow and radiance to the whole countenance, and suggested the burning of a light through alabaster,--a creeping of some subtle fire through the veins which made the fair body seem the mere reflection of some greater fairness within.
— Marie Corelli, The Soul of Lilith
Perfection is doing all that you could. And there's not a single thing more you can do.
— Ahmad Ihsan Mohamad
Perfection is pure-fiction.
— Janelle Jalbert, Triangulating Bliss
Maybe it's not just about finding the perfect friend, partner, or tribe, but finding the perfection in those you've already found.
— Mike Dooley
The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we’re perfect.
— Donald Miller
As the High Priestess looked down upon the child, she was struck by her holy perfection. She was a tiny person in miniature, and her beautiful eyes, little hands, and long eyelashes were sublime.
— Alan Kinross, Longinus The Vampire: Babylon
Every book has an error
— rjApag
There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.
— Ze Frank
Love is never perfect, big brother. It's what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile.
— Jay Crownover, Rome
Life is too short to chase perfection, yet too long to be satisfied with mediocrity.
— Russell Eric Dobda
There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
As long as you hold onto wanting something from the outside, you will be dissatisfied because there is a part of you that you are till not totally owning...How can you be a complete and fulfilled if you believe that you cannot own this part [of yourself] until somebody else does something?...If it is conditional, it is not totally yours.
— A.H. Almaas
The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
In the constant pursuit of perfection, junk food will always be a rather painful stumbling block
— C.S. Woolley
AS WE LAY THERE WE FELT LIKE WE WERE EXTENSTIONS OF EACH OTHER, LIKE OUR BODIES AND OUR HEARTS HAD TO BE TOGETHER TO MAKE ONE WHOLE PERFECT PERSON.
— James Patterson, First Love
His face was like a law of nature—a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is necessary that we possess those advantages which we have been cheated of, and which the experience of modern times has proved that nations even under the present conditions are susceptible.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
God created us so that His love, beauty, perfection, and harmony would be seen through us.
— Sunday Adelaja
No one is perfect but someone is original.
— Ankit_pandey
Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose
—  it's the hazardous detour.
Never stop developing and perfecting your abilities, even if you have already achievedsignificant, visible results.
— Sunday Adelaja
I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls.
— Shannon L. Alder
Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
— Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds
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.
— Peter Santos, Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook
I don’t live by other people’s time tables
—  I live by Gods.
It's not worth it!It's not workin'!You wanted it to be picture perfect!
— Thousand Foot Krutch
Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The masculine ideal of perfection creates a hyper-sensitivity to any nuance of imperfection. Any man who commits his life to the perfectionistic ideal of masculinity is going to feel like a failure. The people around him will feel abused and oppressed by him. The only way to do things is his way, the right way, the ideal way. Every man who succeeds at this game will wind up in the same place: Alone in his victory. At the top of the pyramid there’s no room for anyone else.
— Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men
My life, my soul is anything but finished hence it is not perfect. Only masterpieces are finished and could be considered perfect. So unless you are a "David" or a "Requiem" or perhaps a "Mona Lisa" you are not perfect. We'll be prone to errors and we will make mistakes. But at least these allow us to become something closer to perfection.
— Daniel Gyorki
My life, my soul is anything but finished hence it is not perfect. Only masterpieces are finished and could be considered perfect. So unless you are a "David" or a "Requiem" or perhaps a "Mona Lisa" you and I are not perfect. We'll be prone to errors and we will make mistakes. But at least these allow us to become something closer to perfection.
— Daniel Gyorki
In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.
— Chloe Thurlow
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.
— Guillermo del Toro, Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
But one day you're going to wake up to the smell of a friend making burnt toast and warm coffee, and you're going to smile with relief knowing you made it. Knowing somebody found ways to love you.
— Vanessa Hogg
Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.
— Mark Twain
I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration.
— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Jesus take the wheelTake it from my handsCause I can't do this on my ownI'm letting goSo give me one more chanceSave me from this road I'm onJesus take the wheel
— Carrie Underwood
When a lady isn't perfect, she's a lot more perfect, I believe. - Mack
— Paul Griffin, Stay With Me
But in reality, with Mr. Ellison there is an essence of probity about him; unlike Dorian Grey, him and his hidden portrait are both wonderful. When he speaks there is a certain intonation he gets that reveals so much about him, that you can't help but to feel rapt, and so few get to hear his unspoken thought because they are fixated on the bling and the big show.
— Avra Amar Filion
Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.
— Solange nicole
I went to my dresser, turned the lamp off, and crawled into bed. I was taking a chance but I couldn't help slipping in behind Tweet and draping my arm around her waist. She placed her hand on top of mine and squeezed it slightly. I buried my nose in her dark hair, breathing in the scent of raspberry and vanilla. This was were we belonged.
— Alison G. Bailey
I'm perfect in being imperfect...
— GowthamaAravinthan
Perfection of this human life happens when we take the responsibility to be and act as authentic Leaders in every life situation.
— Indy Bissessur
Beauty of office, is profession in place
— Hicham Zinalabdin
I wasn’t as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.What happened?Everything ends. And it’s how they end that leaves the lasting effect.
— Zia Haider Rahman
There is no perfect first experience of anything. There is only our ability to find a shard of perfection in the wildly imperfect situations we inevitably find ourselves in [Cram, Cusi, "‘One Life to Live’ and 14 Beautiful Boys to Kiss," Cafe, January 14, 2015].
— Cusi Cram
Minimalism means not trying to improve perfection.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There are more important things in life than chasing after this myth of perfection.
— Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless.
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I’ve said for years — ever since I figured out how to write Goblin Hero — that it’s important to give yourself permission to write crap. Perfection is the destroyer of art. It’s paralyzing. Art, whether it’s writing or painting or anything else, requires risk. And risk means you’re going to make mistakes. Sometimes you’re going to fail.
— Jim C. Hines
Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really.
— S. Khemka
A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of-- that a certain type of perfection can only be realised through a limitless accumulation of imperfect.
— Haruki Murakami
Here is a paradox: People who think imperfect are closer to perfection than their counterparts who claim that they're perfect or closer...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Inner-calm will lead you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you want the perfect relationship, start with the one you have with yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.
— John Fowles, The Magus
Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. - How to make an American Quilt
— Anonymous
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
— Daniel M. Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
I had a dream that I was perfect…I woke up and was still perfect. Aw.
— Starley Ard, Dreaming is for lovers
On the way of perfection; often, there are healing steps into the void.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting; butI would have to decline, for life would no longer teach meanything.
— Allyson Jones
I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool.
— Cecil Baldwin
God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them.
— Katie Ganshert, A Broken Kind of Beautiful
Imperfections don’t make something ugly.
— Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope
Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?
— A.S. King, Ask the Passengers
You don’t have to be perfect to have the perfect life.
— Jewel E. Ann, Releasing Me
Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.
— Joan Lindsay, The Secret of Hanging Rock
She apparently didn't expect any trouble but she also never expected everything to go perfectly either. That was a good rule to live by Robie knew. Because perfection was rarely the case in the field.
— David Baldacci, The Hit
Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.
— Karen Essex, Stealing Athena
The height of perfection is mediocrity.
— Pitigrilli, Cocaine
Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
— Alan Brennert, Honolulu
You can argue with a thousand scholars but not with one fool who thinks he's correct and perfect all the time. It's just simple as a frog in the well thinks its dark, damp well is the whole universe. Secretly trying to imitate, but he knows he cannot change his mindset. He would point out your faults for self satisfaction. Just accept what they say and help them to live a long life!
— Heshan Udunuwara
You're perfect. In all you say. In all you do. In all you are. You're perfect to me in every way.
— Vicky H
Perfection is that to inspired with your self
— Sab Sabi
Every great painting includes hundreds of imperfect brushstrokes" Ray White
— Ray  White, Connecting Happiness and Success
Imperfects are funny, lovable and perfect to be happy. Perfects are appreciated and left alone everytime!!!.
— Nelson Jack
Perfection exists only in your own mind. What you find to be perfect, is not necessarily perfect for someone else.
— Ilia Berends
Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
— Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.” I looked up. “Why? Because of my near godlike perfection?
— J. Lynn, Trust in Me
If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Maria Tallchief
You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. The taste of your saliva. The darkness is ours. The nights belong to us. Everything we do is secret. Nothing we do will ever be understood; we will be feared and kept well away from. ..It’s you and me in this room, on this floor. Beyond life, beyond morality. We are gleaming animals painted in moonlit sweat glow. Our eyes turn to jewels and everything we do is an example of spontaneous perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. Now you’re here and everything we touch explodes, bursts into bloom or burns to ash. History atomizes and negates itself with our every shared breath. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
— Henry Rollins
Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.
— David Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed.
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.
— Jael McHenry
... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.
— Paulo Mendes Da Rocha
Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.
— Chloe Thurlow, Girl Trade
Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?
— Edith Pargeter, The Green Branch
You're after perfection,'Matt said.'Is that so awful?''No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.
— Tim Relf, Stag
The thing of it is, we don’t have to be perfect or be the best. We just need to do the best with what God gives us and how life treats us.
— J.W. Lord
No one's book is perfect.
— Sara Sheridan
Greed is a strange, strange sin.All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire attention. The running mantra is “I want, I want, I want” but that quickly turns to “I need, I need, I need.”Suddenly there just isn’t enough time for friends, for family, for anyone. Your goal is to acquire and to make sure what you acquire stays acquired. Your life depends on it. You don’t see truth because the truth is shadowed by enormous homes, incredibly fast cars, in lavish spending. Your life no longer belongs to you, but you are blind to it all because those around you are seeking the same.So you shuffle along at an impossible rate, and you pass the real world around you.But what you’ll come to realize, altogether too late, is that it’s never enough.It’s simply never enough
— Amelie Fisher
Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul.""Oh?""Yes. Because it is clear and pure and lucid.""And treacherous and dangerous?""You know, Niko, I begin to suspect that you are a man of prose. It is a blemish on you.""No one's perfect.""Speak for yourself.
— Trevanian, Shibumi
This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations. It is still capable of perceiving message-totalities and autonomous thing-signals when no morphologically intact figures are left - indeed, precisely then. The sense for perfection withdraws from the forms of nature - probably because nature itself is in the process of losing its ontological authority. The popularization of photography also increasingly devalues the standard views of things. As the first edition of the visible, nature comes into discredit. It can no longer assert its authority as the sender of binding messages - for reasons that ultimately come from its disenchantment through being scientifically explored and technically outdone. After this shift, 'being perfect' takes on an altered meaning: it means having something to say that is more meaningful than the chatter of conventional totalities. Now the torsos and their ilk have their turn: the hour of those forms that do not remind us of anything has come. Fragments, cripples and hybrids formulate something that cannot be conveyed by the common whole forms and happy integrities; intensity beats standard perfection.
— Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
I am not perfect,my roots are not watered with perfection.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.
— Karl Weierstrass
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.
— Adam Smith
Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it’s elusive and may be an illusion.
— R.L. Griffin, Seamless
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
— Émile Zola
Life is perfect as long as you didn't cheat.
— ayette roa
The universe has no mind and that’s why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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.
— Paula Heller Garland
As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all its flaws studied to establish whether or not it is the genuine gem or just masquerading as one under the glitter of big hitting or weight of runs.
— Patrick Ferriday, Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.
— Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
She could strive for perfection only in certain, few things; beyond that, it was important only to be tidy.
— Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
Is it better to have something perfect that doesn't fit or something imperfect that fits?
— Buffi Neal, Wonderfully Dysfunctional - It Must be Genetic
Through pain and growth, I have come to appreciate -no, more than that-I've come to love my fence, even though it may be different than the neighbors'. The concept of perfection is not flawless or ripped from a magazine. It's happiness. Happiness with all itsmessiness and not-quite-thereness. It's knowing that life is short, and the moments we choose to fill our cup wiht should be purposeful and rich. That we should be present for life, that we should drink deeply. And that's perfection. And my dad and my mom and my family-my past, present, and future with Nella, what the world may view as broken or damaged-have taught me what true beauty really is.
— Kelle Hampton, Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir
Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?
— Ben Monopoli, The Painting of Porcupine City
Absolute perfection is insidious.
— Chirag Tulsiani
I’ve watched you for a very long time now. And in this time, I’ve come to discover just as I first suspected. We are perfect for one another.
— Paloma Beck, Hold My Hand
Man is flawed
—  universe is imperfect
For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.
— Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts
Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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, I decided that having a dimple on only one cheek was practically a deformity.
— G.J. Walker-Smith
Give me one manfrom among ten thousandif he is the best
— Heraclitus, Fragments
If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.
— Colin Powell
Alexander moved her off him, laid her down, was over her, was pressed into her, crushing her. Anthony was right there, he didn't care, he was trying to inhale her, trying to absorb her into himself. "All this time you were stepping out in front of me, Tatiana," he said. "Now I finally understand. You hid me on Bethel Island for eight months. For two years you hid me and deceived me - to save me. I am such an idiot," he whispered. "Wretch or not, ravaged or not, in a carapace or not, there you still were, stepping out for me, showing the mute mangled stranger your brave and indifferent face."Her eyes closed, her arms tightened around his neck. "That stranger is my life," she whispered. They crawled away from Anthony, from their only bed, onto a blanket on the floor, barricading themselves behind the table and chairs. "You left our boy to go find me, and this is what you found..." Alexander whispered, on top of her, pushing inside her, searching for peace.Crying out underneath him, Tatiana clutched his shoulders."This is what you brought back from Sachsenhausen." his movement was tense, deep, needful. Oh God. Now there was comfort. "You thought you were bringing back him, but Tania, you brought back me.""Shura...you'll have to do..." Her fingers were clamped into his scars."In you," said Alexander, lowering his lips to her parted mouth and cleaving their flesh, "are the answers to all things."All the rivers flowed into the sea and still the sea was not full.
— Paullina Simons, The Summer Garden
But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulfill its function, which is to whirr as a heart beats - and we give no thought to the beating of our heart. Thus, precisely because it is perfect the machine dissembles its own existence instead of forcing itself upon our notice.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.
— Daniel Xiao Wang, Lucid Nightmares