#perfection

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection? ↗

— Thomas Mann

#eternity #excellence #nothingness #perfection #sea

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#concept #flawed #i #inherently #perfection

Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#drama #first-love #friendship #inspirational #life

I'm not looking for the perfect man. I'm looking for the man whose imperfections I can put up with. ↗

— Devon Ashley

#imperfection #perfect-man #humor

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it. ↗

— Idries Shah

#imagination #perfection #real-knowledge #imagination

Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #perfection #puppy-love #age

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#fallibility #flaws #gold #imperfection #inspirational

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humanity #life #perfection #poetry #relationships

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life #perfect #perfection #something-wicked-this-way-comes #life

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life