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“Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.”

Matter Character Action Grows Levels Pay Attention Our Lives Events Development Perfection Pay Attention Minors High Level Character Development

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.”

Mind Action Turns Events Perfection Beloved

Author:Stendhal

“To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.”

Humans Quality Events Sweet Amount Needed Perfection Charity Prosperity Sunshine Moderates Juice Courtesy Peaches Human Qualities Ripening Apricots

Book:Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household

Source: Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household

“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”

Events Perfection

Book:The periodic table

Source: The periodic table

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.”

Done Moments Universe Rooms Events Perfection Tea Japan Ritual Transformed Communion Ceremony Small Rooms Tea Ceremony

Author:Okakura Kakuzo

“True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.”

Way Art Seems Happens Speak Steps Events Masters Shapes Perfection Empty Foolish Imperfect Tao Fullness Crooked True Wisdom

Author:Laozi

“The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.”

Love Self Three Pleasure Lord Seeing Events Divine Willing All Things Perfection Absence Servant Beloved Submission Decree Soundness Being Content

Author:Ibn Ata Allah

“Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.”

Ends Process Change Perfect Business Middle Events Perfection Marketing Pauses Improving Stopping

Author:Jay Conrad Levinson