Top 84 Quotes About Perfection In Love
#1. What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)
Saint Augustine
#2. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.
Louise Erdrich
#3. Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
John Stott
#4. The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Hermann Hesse
#5. From character Henry Lee in the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about". Love it!
Jamie Ford
#6. Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.
Sharon Salzberg
#7. Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.
Eric Weiner
#9. We have been fashioned, in all our perfection, each according to his own nature, and all our natures ordered and harmonized together, that man's reason and his love might fit in this one last element, this God-given key to the meaning of the whole.
Thomas Merton
#10. True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
Teresa Of Avila
#11. I wasn't as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.
What happened?
Everything ends. And it's how they end that leaves the lasting effect.
Zia Haider Rahman
#12. I wasn't sure I wanted a love interest for Alexander. The thought of being jealous of a character in a book was silly, but I couldn't help it. Alexander Banks was the closest to perfection
that any guy could ever be.
Allison Van Diepen
#13. There I am in my younger days, star gazing
Painting picture perfect maps
Of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles I should have seen.
Indigo Girls
#14. Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.
Liz Johnson
#15. The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today.
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine.
Long before we met we had had the same dreams.
Vladimir Nabokov
#16. Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
William Hazlitt
#18. From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it in its essence.
Oscar Wilde
#19. Will and Love practiced
to invoke her Majesty Kundalini
In the world where Adepts die and bloom as Lotuses
The perfection of Union is Silence
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#20. We were all born by accident but this wandering caravan
will make camp in perfection
Forget the nonsense categories of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination
You are soul, and you are love, ...
No more questions now as to what it is we're doing here
Coleman Barks
#21. What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts ... But you, I think, have always comprehended this.
James Branch Cabell
#22. Love is beautiful. However, being in a relationship isn't always a walk in the park. I think people often get love confused with perfection.
Alexandra Elle
#23. My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
Richard M. Rorty
#24. You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!
Cupideros
#25. What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
Friedrich Holderlin
#26. My fatherhood made me understand my parents and to honor them more for the love they gave. My sonhood was revealed to me in its own perfection and I understood the reason the Chinese so value filiality, the responsibility of the son to honor the parents.
Kent Nerburn
#27. Taking care of yourself isn't about trying to become perfect. It's about realizing and honouring,
in every moment, that
you already are.
Vironika Tugaleva
#28. As the High Priestess looked down upon the child, she was struck by her holy perfection. She was a tiny person in miniature, and her beautiful eyes, little hands, and long eyelashes were sublime.
Alan Kinross
#29. You don't love someone because they're a dream of perfection. You love them because of the way they meet their challenges, how they struggle to overcome. You love them because together, you bring out the best in each other.
Lani Wendt Young
#30. If love is left untainted by our promiscuous meddling, and if it is left to be all that God designed it to be, God will use it to turn pain to our profit in His pursuit of our perfection.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
Karen Salmansohn
#32. too much love like too much rain begets large and bloody pools of discontent. I see my winter marked in your eyes. Whoever told you I was perfection?'-exerpt from Valide
Barbara Chase-Riboud
#33. I remember what it is like to be in love before any of love's complexities or realities or disturbances has entered in, to dilute its splendor and challenge its perfection.
E.B. White
#34. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.
Emma Raveling
#35. In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
William Ames
#36. I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down ... How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?
Roman Payne
#37. Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature ... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
R.D. Laing
#38. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
Anthony Collins
#39. When our purpose is to give credit to God for his love, power, and perfection in all we do, we can serve him properly.
Anonymous
#40. To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
John Locke
#41. In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
Abbi Glines
#42. Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.
David W. Earle
#43. Until Elle.
I'd never known complete perfection until I made love to her for the first time. Every touch, kiss, stroke, or caress made was all in a need to show her how much I cared. How much I loved her.
Angela McPherson
#44. There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
Eugene Kennedy
#45. 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.
Ibn Ata Allah
#46. If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it ... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.
Ernest Becker
#47. No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain.
San Juan De La Cruz
#48. Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.
Sorin Cerin
#50. Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.
Marguerite De Navarre
#51. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
Richard Rolle
#52. Oxford was in love with the idea of Christian perfection.
Philip Zaleski
#53. Why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#54. To be holy is to live in a way that reflects the moral perfection of God; it is to live a life marked by love, purity, and righteousness, which are the three most important hallmarks of perfect behavior.
T. Desmond Alexander
#55. He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
E. M. Forster
#56. We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
Luc De Clapiers
#57. In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that
Anonymous
#58. There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.
Shimon Peres
#59. The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.
John Welwood
#60. Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.
Gautama Buddha
#61. Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.
Thomas Merton
#62. I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.
Doug Harvey
#63. Love is never perfect, big brother. It's what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile.
Jay Crownover
#64. There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.
Ilyas Kassam
#65. Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy. This makes self-love is the perfect soil from which to grow love.
Bryant McGill
#66. The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#67. Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature
Thomas Merton
#68. Is there such a thing as a perfect match?"
"If one strives for perfection in and itself, then, no. But if one strives only to find the piece that compliments, that stands nobly alone, yet is made better with companionship, then yes, I believe a match is possible.
April White
#70. Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool.
Cecil Baldwin
#71. The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good.
Pope Benedict XVI
#72. We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure ...
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#73. Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. - How to make an American Quilt
Anonymous
#74. In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.
Francis Quarles
#75. Only LEFT and RIGHT hand can hold each other and walk together ... Only RIGHTs are enough to say bye.
Nobody is perfect in the world, if you Love the perfection of his/her imperfections then LOVE exists.
Anuj Tiwari
#76. It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.
Shams Tabrizi
#77. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#78. Let us realize, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbour, and the more nearly perfect is our observance of these two commandments, the nearer to perfection we shall be. Our
Teresa Of Avila
#79. But it isn't about perfection, and it isn't about performance. You'll miss the richest moments in life - the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love - if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.
Shauna Niequist
#80. Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.
Peter Danielson
#81. I especially love the way he moves, like a young god who takes his time walking because he wants mere mortals like me to bask in his perfection.
Marian Tee
#82. Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time
Debbie Behan
#83. Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened
Mary Anne Radmacher
#84. Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.
Debasish Mridha
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