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Perfection Quotes

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ~Donald Miller

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. ~Bob Marley

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

He who seeks perfection in a friend will stay without friends. ~Yiddish Proverb

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business. ~Michael J. Fox

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. ~Leo Tolstoy

Confidence doesn’t come from thinking you’re perfect or flawless. That’s arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture. ~Jeanette Walls

Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. ~Jeannette Walls

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody’s perfect. ~Colum McCann

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ~Alden Nowlan

To attempt finding a perfect person to fall in love with is like trying to catch your own shadow. Accept the imperfect person you have and learn to see and appreciate that person perfectly everyday, because both of you are not perfect yet. ~GADEL

Perfect people aren’t real, real people aren’t perfect. So either love people for their flaws or hate them because they’re real. ~Anonymous

Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect, it means you’ve decided to live your life in spite of all its imperfections. ~Emily Turek

Franz Kafka Quotes

Posted on December 29, 2011January 3, 2012 by

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Evil is whatever distracts.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Beauty is not in the face

Posted on December 10, 2011December 10, 2011 by

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Kahlil Gibran

August Love Quotes

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.” ~ Unknown

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” ~Thomas Fuller

“Love is blind but after experiencing it for a long time you should become familiar with some particular spots.” ~Unknown

“Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.” ~Rusty Silvey

“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ~John Keats

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” ~Victor Hugo

“Love – a bare whisper that makes your body ignite with such uncontrollable curiosity.” ~Unknown

“Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.” ~ Stacie Cunningham

“I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” ~ Roy Croft

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.” ~Robert G. Ingersoll

“Those who love deeply never grow old.” ~Anonymous

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~Janos Arnay

Someone sent me this, “He is the only reason I get up in the mornings” ~Unknown

“There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”~Victor Robinson

“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is just a word until it is proven to you.” ~Unknown

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~Mignon McLaughlin

“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.” ~Sammy Cahn

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ~Plato

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” ~Barbara De Angelis

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” ~Jane Austen

“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” ~Melanie Clark

“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…” ~ Lord Byron

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~H. L. Mencken

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ~Erich Segal

“We can only learn to love by loving.” ~Iris Murdoch

“It is impossible to love and be wise.” ~ Francis Bacon

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” ~Ingrid Bergman

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~Albert Einstein

“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” ~Ambrose Bierce

“Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” ~Erich Fromm

“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.” ~Emily Dickinson

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” ~Amelia Burr

“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” ~Euripides

Neil Gaiman Quotes

Posted on August 1, 2011 by

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Also, I’ve already won all the awards. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I’m sure there are words that are simply in there ’cause I like them. I know I couldn’t justify each and every one of them. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I don’t know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it’s very, very classical, and in some ways I’m breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can’t do. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I think of myself as a very lazy author. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I’ve written. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I’d go and work my way through the children’s area. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I’ll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you’re trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I’m a fairly undisciplined writer. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I’m one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I’m very good at doing that, but I don’t like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Beauty Quote

Posted on July 2, 2011 by

“Beauty without intelligence is a masterpiece painted on a napkin” – Unknown

10 Life Quotes

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” — Douglas Adams

“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” — André Gide

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.” — Mother Teresa

Beauty Quotes

Posted on May 22, 2011 by

“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.” – Sara Teasdale

“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” – Adlai E. Stevenson

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they’re actually beautiful.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.” – Don Williams, Jr

“I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.” – Sarah McLachlan

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder” – Kinky Friedman

“She’s beautiful, and therefore to be woo’d She is a woman, therefore to be won” – William Shakespeare

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” – Dorothy Parker

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love” – Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational Quotes

Posted on April 24, 2011April 23, 2011 by

This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Life is a choice. – Anonymous

Attitude is everything. – Charles Swindoll

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. – George Bernard Shaw

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. – Yiddish Proverb

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. – A Course in Miracles

Yuri Gagarin Quotes

Posted on April 12, 2011April 12, 2011 by

Today we celebrate 50 years since man first landed on the moon. His name was Yuri Gagarin and we celebrate him in our own way, sharing Yuri Gagarin Quotes!

“I could have gone on flying through space forever.”

“I see Earth! It is so beautiful!”

“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth’s light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.”

“I looked and looked but I didn’t see God.”