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“To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.”

World Humanity Walks Known Struggle Labor Perfection Track Golden Womanhood Manhood Fellowship

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.”

Thinking Want Looks Long Interesting Struggle Long Time Concepts Perfection Pressure Photograph Being Yourself Very Interesting Long Time Ago Gave Up My Struggle

Author:Anne Hathaway

“In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.”

Knows Love Feels Trying Heart Order Grows Pay Struggle Pride Honor Enlightenment Deserve Perfection And Love Dues Division Relish

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.”

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Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.”

People World Long Christian Struggle Type Perfection Tired Intimacy Pretense Feigning

Book:Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times

Source: Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.”

Source: The Powers of The Mind

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”

Littles Care Beauty Struggle Century Concerned Perfection Don't Care I Don't Care Intensity I Care Life Struggle

Author:Emile Zola

“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”

Giving Has Beens Ideas Character Able Strong Struggle Capable Perfection Accounts Faculty Stability Gifted Advancing Being Strong

Author:Confucius

“Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.”

Source: What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

“Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth. There is always a danger lest the fascination of a new discovery should lead us too far. Men of science, being human, are apt, like lovers, to exaggerate the perfections and be a little blind to the faults of the object of their choice.”

“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.”

Source: Karma Yoga

“All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.”

Religious Practice Struggle Doors Negative Perfection Bars Birthright

Book:Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)

Source: Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)

“Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .”

Struggle Morality Perfection Bounds Proof

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.”

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Book:Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)

Source: Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)