#perfection

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

#anything #approach #brings #each #happiness

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#another #could #first #how #indeed

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#certain #get #i #in the beginning #perfection

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#beyond #dialogue #drama #got #grew

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#deal #i #like #okay #perfectionist

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#achieves #aims #artist #everything #nothing

... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#art-form #cooking #dinner #food #food-for-thought

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#beauty #body-image #comfortable #happiness #imperfection

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#broken #connection #imperfection #life #truth

I dare you to say I’m not ugly. ↗

— Angela Morrison

#perfection #ugly #beauty