#perfection

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#perfectionism #self #self-awareness #souls #life

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

#music #musician #perfection #life

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#beasts #mankind #perfection #mankind

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me. ↗

— Nellie Melba

#been #best #got #help #i

The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#big #big secret #big thing #discovered #flaws

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achieving #capable #conceiving #him #his

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. ↗

— Ben Okri

#fundamental #hints #human #imperfection #perfection

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#because #care #drive #i #i can

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#imperfection #kind