Perfection

By perfection I mean only reality or being.

-Baruch Spinoza

Time weaves Destiny into Design
until in the end Perfection shines through the warp and weft
and the God-thought underlying all becomes manifest.
-Louis Hamon

The"perfected" are wholly with God,
indivisibly and without separation.
-Saint Symeon the New Theologian

There are perfect men, who being such, 

out of the greatness of their loving hearts, 

make themselves small 

to slave continuously to make the imperfect one perfect also. 

-Sufi Saying

Perfection is not in exhibitions of miraculous powers,

but perfection is to sit among people, sell and buy,

marry and have children;

and yet never leave the presence of Allah even for one moment.

-Sa'id al'Kharraz

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. 

-Rene Descartes

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. 

-Chinese Proverb

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. 

-Pen Densham Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work, 

And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. 

-William Butler Yeats

There is no perfection where there is duality.
God alone is perfect.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

God is perfection itself,
not an effort at perfection.
-Nisargadatta

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. 

So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

-William Faulkner

There is no perfection, only life.
-Milan Kundera

Be able to reconcile the perfection of your divine inheritance
with the imperfection of your idiosyncrasies.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The function of perfection -
to make one know one's imperfection.
-Augustine