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“Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.”

Way Art Desire Teach Habit Art Is Perfection Goddess Dainty

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.”

Art Desire Order Perfection Bases Regularity Irregularity

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.”

Wells Persons Art Self Spiritual Desire Father Growing Up Environment Growing Benefits Perfection Method Strive Strife Naturalist Jiu Jitsu Self Perfection

Author:Carlos Gracie, Jr.

“The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.”

World Humans Facts Desire Human Beings Forever Achieve Emotional Despair Intellectual Perfection Species Strive Denial Imperfection Doomed Saddest Ardent

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.”

Desire Perfection Instinct Vicious

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.”

Humans Character Form Desire Human Beings Degrees Ideals Perfection Imperfection Portions

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

Inspirational Mean Faces Desire Vision Practice Perfection Dancing Dance Obstacles Generosity Inviting Choreographers Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

“Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.”

Eye Desire Views Higher Deserve Perfection Faults Appreciation Merit

Author:John Frederick Boyes

“There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.”

World Two Desire Suffering Buddhism Enlightenment Perfection Endless Luminous Two Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.”

Source: Soteriology, eschatology

“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.”

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.”

Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women

“We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being.”

Littles Ideas Seems Would Be Earth Desire Existence Progress Prove Perfection Train Former Sufficient Expanding Immensity Train Of Thought

Author:Humphry Davy