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Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

People feel so guilty about not exercising. Especially people over 50, who feel like they've gone a lifetime without taking care of themselves. Instead of aiming for perfection, you should try to celebrate the progress you're making.

People don't want to see wrinkles, because if they see wrinkles in actors then they have to face that they have wrinkles, too. They'd rather see perfection up there. And so then you get rocket scientists who are 22 years old.

People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity.

People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.

Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

Perfection is an impossible destination

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

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

Perfection is really boring!

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

Perfection's awesome... So I strive for it every day.

Perfection can be a fetish

Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills.

Perfection is a moving target

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.