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“Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.”

Life Is Greater Achieve Perfection Series Strive Imperfection

Book:The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

Source: The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

Knows Art Made Character Effort Situation Accepting Greater Acceptance Ordinary Art Is Strive Everyday Incline

Author:Lawren Harris

“Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.”

Ifs May Light Fall Numbers Virtue Greater Faults Strive Commit Neglect Repentance Large Numbers

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

Believe Pain Faith Fall Loss Doubt Greater Trouble Sorrow Gains Rain Crosses Strive Height Bees Anguish Swarms Hives

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.”

Hard Grows Greater Ambition Lows Fellows Strive

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?”

Should Has Beens Facts Greater Produce Shapes Ideals Opposites Tragedy Strive Investing Our Future Endeavour

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.”

People Has Beens Done Greater Strive Despite Compromise Former Permanent Lasting Ancestor Recalls Calamity Discord

Author:Albert Einstein

“Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

Care Greater Comfort Comfortable News Organization Strive Journalism Greater Good

Author:David Shuster

“I witness the reality and divinity of our Eternal Father, of His Only Begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Ghost. I testify that our Father hears and answers our prayers. May each of us strive with greater resolve to ask in faith and thereby make our prayers truly meaningful.”

“What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?”

Men Hands Winning Greater Feet Glory Strive Racing

Book:Odyssey, Homer

Source: Odyssey, Homer

“In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.”

Men Play Stories Inspiration Universe Waiting Millions Greater Strive Engaging Seekers Splendor Iliad

Author:John Masefield