Quotes About Imperfection

When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.

i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.

Someone once told me love isn't perfect—or predictable.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

Perfect people make for boring novels.

Nobody in need of forgiveness deserves it," Konrad said. "Not one person. We all make foolish mistakes that we cannot fix. Though we may not deserve forgiveness, we all have a right to it. Just for having the courage to live in this difficult world, where fallible people do imperfect things. The supply of forgiveness is unlimited.

We all just do the best we can. When we make mistakes, we admit them, learn from them, ask forgiveness and move on.

Hardbody." McDermott nods in agreement. "Definitely." "I'm not impressed," Price sniffs. "Look at her knees." While the hardbody stands there we check her out, and though her knees do support long, tan legs, I can't help noticing that one knee is, admittedly, bigger than the other one. The left knee is knobbier, almost imperceptibly thicker than the right knee and this unnoticeable flaw now seems overwhelming and we all lose interest.

So I have failed you?" "Not at all. Your human frailties are not your fault.

I was willing to suck at it. When I train new coaches I have to remind them regularly to be willing to be imperfect, be willing to make mistakes, and be willing to do a terrible job. It really is the only way we can improve and get better at anything.

I had to let myself show, warts and all.

Heaven: "This is wonderful. I could stay here forever." Hell: "This is not quite perfect.

Incarnation, the limitation of mind by matter, is an outrage to the imagination.

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.

There's nothing as boring as perfection

Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology.

Those flawed in their nature have no control over themselves.

A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.

There's a lot of 'oops' from us in life as people. I always say that God never says 'oops.' That's just kind of how I've always lived my life, but we're so imperfect that there's a lot of times that we say, 'Oops, my bad.'