Quotes About Imperfection

At 'SNL,' we don't have the luxury to perfect things. However a video turns out, that's what we have to present. There's a number of things that I'm super embarrassed by and wish didn't air.

So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.

Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better.

I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you'd spontaneously combust. I think that's a law of nature. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Mi estatura está algo por bajo de la media: este defecto no es solamente feo, sino incómodo, principalmente para los que tienen mando o ejercen cargos, pues la autoridad que procura la presencia hermosa y la corporal majestad les faltan.

I am not a professional historian: nobody is perfect.

We cannot forgive ourselves for not being perfect.

No podemos perdonarnos por no ser perfectos.

imagen de perfección. Nos resulta imposible perdonarnos por no ser lo que desearíamos ser, o mejor dicho, por no ser quien creemos que deberíamos ser. No podemos perdonarnos por no ser perfectos.

and then in the twenty-first year it suddenly transpires that Roman law is a complete waste of time, that he not only doesn't understand it and dislikes it too, but that he is really a born gardener and has an unquenchable love of flowers. This is presumably the result of some imperfection in our social system, which seems to ensure that people frequently only find their proper metier towards the end of their lives.

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

There is no perfection only life Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

There is no perfection, only life

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.

Love is a fault; so be it.

But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.

You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.