“Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.” HumansSoulEvilChristDarknessSawsPossibilityCapablePerfectionRecoveryRepentanceBondageHuman SoulRestorationGermsWretchedness Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.” TwoSpiritGivenStarsCreativityCreativeSawsGreaterParticularAspectPerfectionAbsolutesMoodCosmosMakersBarren Author:Olaf Stapledon
“She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.” TwoTogetherReligionWomenSawsPiecesMiddleEqualPaperAreasPerfectionCirclesMathematicalPairsFormulasLeafsNeatArrivingCrescent Author:Jan Struther
“He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.” MenKindShowsNightPerfectSunSawsSkyPerfectionRoseFaultsCloudsSpotsFollyBoastBosomsThornsPerfect Man Book:Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon
“You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.” KindPersonsEndsBodyEyeSawsSeeingPerfectionLonelyDivorceFatsTowersVesselSkinnyEiffel TowerEiffelMargo Roth Spiegelman Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.” ArtMadeMomentsBeautifulLostForceMemoriesEffortEmotionAttitudeSawsAirCostPerfectionDanceWorthyLovelyConclusionSymbolsDancerReliefImmortalWorks Of ArtBalletGravityGesturesNothingnessFleetingExquisiteUnendingFugitivePoise Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.” SongFightingGoalVoiceWaterHoursDestinySawsSadnessListeningThousandRainRiversPerfectionYearningOne WordSorrowfulSiddharthaFlowing Water Author:Hermann Hesse