Just the other day I came across a statement: a perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human