Perfection

Famous quotes containing the word perfection:

“There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The job for us is to develop a way to teach children without demanding instant perfection or without giving in to every whim.”
—Jeannette W. Galambos (20th century)

“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain’t-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on—our lost narcissism lives on—in our ego ideal.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)