Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

Swami Vivekananda

Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

Swami Vivekananda

In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

Rosalynn Carter

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

Ron Fournier

Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

Rumi

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

Rumi

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

Rumi

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Tom Petty

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.

Tom Peters

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

Tom Robbins

People are never perfect, but love can be.

Tom Ford

There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.

Tom Ford

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

Thomas Merton

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

Thomas Merton

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.

Thomas Merton

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

Thomas Carlyle

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Tony Judt

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

Tony Evans

God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you.

Tony Evans

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Steve Martin

It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.

Steve Camp

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

Stephen Hawking

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist

Stephen Hawking

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

Stephen King

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Stendhal

I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

Stanislav Grof

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Shelley Long

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

Shawn Johnson

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

Serj Tankian

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Scott Westerfeld

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

Steven Pinker

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

Sue Grafton

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.