#perfection

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ↗

— Ann Landers

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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. ↗

— William Law

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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. ↗

— William Law

#condition #conduct #consist #does #duties

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#her #man #perfection #portray #thing

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #emotion #go #groove #machine

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#fact #i #i think #in fact #leaks

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#allow #back #deep #dig #down

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. ↗

— Debra Messing

#believe #endgame #fundamentally #go #happiness