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“The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.”

Knows Way Hard Wisdom Form Sound Water Perfect Know How Cold Drink Perfection Hot Perceive Subtle Drink Water

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.”

Men Reason Found Understanding Sound Duty Judgment Perfection Guides Discretion

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.”

Lying Sound Perfection Hot Notes Delight Paradise Bitterness Imperfect Stubborn Flawed

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“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

“I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.”

Want I Can Jobs Sound Perfection Strive Cymbals

Author:Chris Johnson

“I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.”

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt