Quotes About Imperfections

You do know Chris is thoroughly fucked-up, don't you?" My reply is instant, defensive. Protective. "Aren't we all?" "Not like Chris." I don't ask how he knows. It could be the club. Maybe a friendship that once was and is now lost. It doesn't matter. "It's his imperfections that make him perfect," I reply, and there is conviction in my voice.

My life was like that box. The best things in all the imperfections.

It's those little nicks and dents and imperfections of spirit that allow us to flow out into a thirsty world. It's our scars that allow us to relate to the scars of others, our suffering that connects us to others who suffer.

love is not reasonable or measured. It undoes you. It's in the imperfections in each other, in ourselves, where we find our humanity. It's in our dents and scars where the deepest connections are made. Real love resides in the parts of me I think no one wants to see.

For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

You can only be a true friend when you learn that friends are people and people have faults.

Don't make yourself perfect for someone to love you... just wait for someone who loves your Imperfections.

Ladies when a guy can handle your flaws, love on you on your moody days and kiss you when you don't look great... he's definitely worth it.

Looking for perfection in a person brings too much expectations. When your expectations are not met, too many disappointments come. Learn to appreciate a person's imperfections. In them, you'll find perfection.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.

Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage

We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections-why give up on the church?

If my words cut, then let them cut as the physick's knife, to restore health. And let my own imperfections, numerous as grains of sand, not mar my message.

We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Climb down into your idea, inhabit your idea, well-digger hanging from your rope. At first it was only an outline, a halo, and by now it has not got very far, and everywhere I touch upon things which are not that idea of yours, I touch that idea through everything that refutes it, the world expires along its shores. My idea, my idea clings to countless bonds. A long story and I am moved to pity by its scarred form, I kiss the imperfections of its foot.

Essere felici non significa che tutto è perfetto, vuol dire che hai deciso di guardare oltre le imperfezioni.