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“The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.”

Feels Trying Humans Self Human Beings Steps Perfection

Book:Zen

Source: Zen

“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

“Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are.”

Humans Doe Important Human Beings Perfection

Author:Talisa Soto

“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

“We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Impossible Communication Industry Perfection Advertising Imperfect Tides Inhuman

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.”

Ifs Giving Humans Persons Happens Suffering Faith Causes Religious Human Beings Demand Perfection God Love Human Life Righteousness Love Someone Disillusioned Vindictive

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest