“I now had more gold than I’d ever had at one time before, but it somehow seemed that it wasn’t enough.”
Sometimes in life, it seems that you can never get enough. Perfection is an image that people have strived for since the beginning of time. Yet, people haven’t got over the fact that the simple things in life can bring happiness upon you. In the picture below, you can see that the image is filled with perfect points of the pencil. The image is beautiful, but the pursuit of perfection is an understatement of the overall picture. By pursuing perfection, you are setting yourself up for failure. Perfection is something that is unattainable, but people persistently try to pursue it. The below image is a perfect example of how people will go for perfection, yet settle at beauty.Perfection will bring nothing but misery, because it is a misconception and an unattainable mysticism. I believe the quote above correlates excellently to the image below because of the persuit of perfection and its unassailability.
David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (New York: Ballantine Books, 1982), page 222
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