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Mon 1 May 2023

Perfect

Posted by PJ under perfection, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.”

—Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! (with Dave Kaplan)

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Thu 3 Mar 2022

Perfectibility

Posted by PJ under aging, life, perfection, quote of the day, youth
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“The art of mid-life is surely always cloudier than the art of youth, as life itself gets cloudier. But it would be disingenuous to pretend it is only that. I am a citizen as well as an individual soul and one of the things citizenship teaches us, over the long stretch, is that there is no perfectibility in human affairs. This fact, still obscure to the twenty-one-year-old, is a little clearer to the woman of forty-one.”

—Zadie Smith, “On Optimisim and Despair,” Feel Free

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Mon 31 Aug 2020

Self

Posted by PJ under health, perfection, quote of the day, self-esteem
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“It’s not about perfection. It’s about purpose. We have to care about our bodies and what we put in them. Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health—take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.”

—Beyoncé Knowles, Elle, May 2016

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Wed 8 Apr 2020

Perfection

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Random quote of the day:

“Out of perfection nothing can be made.”

—Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion

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Tue 10 Mar 2020

Perfection

Posted by PJ under art, perfection, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We must surrender the idea that this perfection that we see in the mind or before our eyes is obtainable or attainable. It is really far from us. We are no more capable of having it than the infant that tries to eat it. But our happiness lies in our moments of awareness of it.”

—Agnes Martin, lecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, February 14, 1973

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Mon 3 Dec 2018

Being human

Posted by PJ under asceticism, perfection, quote of the day, saints, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.”

—George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi”

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Fri 22 Jun 2018

A beauty

Posted by PJ under beauty, perfection, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“A beautiful thing is never perfect.”

—Egyptian proverb

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Thu 14 Jul 2016

Perfection

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Random quote of the day:

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.”

—Antoine de Saint Exupéry, L’Avion, tr. Lewis Galantière

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Mon 16 Sep 2013

Stumbled upon

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Random quote of the day:

“By your stumbling, the world is perfected.”

—Sri Aurobindo

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Mon 7 May 2012

Perfection

Posted by PJ under art, music, perfection, quote of the day
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“My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often—in fact, mostly—at the expense of everything else in my life.”

—Stan Getz, quoted in Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz by Donald L. Maggin

 

 

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