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“My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.”

Men Should May Ideas Bears Perfection Burden This Life

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.”

People World Ends Moving Spirit Mankind Source Bears Becoming Higher Anxiety Ambition Perfection Majority Pursuit Temper Grapes Thorns Countenance Ignoble Gait

Book:The Works of Walter Pater

Source: The Works of Walter Pater

“lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.”

Wells Art Sound Numbers Known Bears Lovers Perfection Repeats Nonsense Echoes Well Known Impatient Tautology

Book:The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author

Source: The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author

“The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.”

World Children Littles Moments Perfect Path Grace Dying Bears Eternal My Friends Perfection Imperfect Eternal Life Transgression

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.”

Suffering Bears Perfection Beast

Author:Meister Eckhart

“The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.”

Spirit Century Example Bears Ideals Perfection Fruit Devotion Communism Selflessness Nobility Titans

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.”

Ifs Sometimes Pain Felt Bears Perfection

Book:Horde

Source: Horde

“Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.”

Giving May Suffering Turns Father Causes Support Strength Bears Blessing Perfection Eternity Trials Heavenly Affliction Heavenly Father Refinement

Author:Delbert L. Stapley

“I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy.”

Men Way Want Ideas Energy Loses Perfect Bears Men And Women Perfection Strive Evolve Atmosphere Giants Pearls Doing Good Swine Time Heals Pearls Before Swine

Book:Swami Vivekananda on Himself

Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself

“But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God”

Littles Spirit Certain Bears Perfection Portions Preparing Accustomed

Author:Irenaeus of Lyons

“Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.”

Body Light Remember Spirit Choices Mistake Focus Bears Conscious Perfection Function Burden Your Body Innocence Selective Containers

Author:Marianne Williamson