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Less Than Perfect
«A little drowsing cat is an image of a perfect beatitude»
Author: Jules Champfleury
| About:
Cats
| Keywords:
Beatitude, drowse, Drowsed, drowsing, image, Imaged, Image An, Image The, imaging, Less Than Perfect, my image, this image
«Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.»
Author: Mark Victor Hansen
| About:
Courage,
Growth,
Motivation,
Progress,
Self-confidence,
Success
| Keywords:
Challenges, conditions, confident, get started, just right, less than, Less Than Perfect, more and more, Obstacles, self-confident, skilled, So What, started
«Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.»
Author: Roy Andries de Groot
| Keywords:
back street, bistro, dine, dine in, eternally, gourmets, Less Than Perfect, Lyon, pack, peanuts, temperamental, XIV
«Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.»
Author: William Barclay
| Keywords:
arms, everlasting, flow, higher power, lean, leaner, lean back, Less Than Perfect, linger, lingered, offering, peace offering, presence, presence of God, security, serenity, too little
«Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.»
«If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet»
«Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
Less Than Perfect, realization
«Because not even the least dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called `utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called `utmost, right and perfect enlighten»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
at variance, Dharma, enlighten, enlightenment, identical, Less Than Perfect, therein, variance
«The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abandoned, bodily, chip, commanded, continual, curly, delighted, dimple, dimpled, dimples, dimpling, dragoon, faculty, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, gingerbread, incurred, incurring, incurs, individualize, individualized, individualizes, individualizing, Less Than Perfect, lunatic, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, painted, prank, pranks, rank, secured, sensations, sense of purpose, Sight and Sound, symmetrical, tasked, whistle
«Pray, do not mock me:I am a very foolish fond old man,Fourscore and upward, not an hour more, or less:And, to deal plainly,I fear I am not in my perfect mind.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fond, fourscore, Less Than Perfect, mock, more or less, old man, plainly, upward