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Quotes About Imperfection

I have a lot of problems as a human being. It's not something that you do, just walking around saying 'I'm perfect' or 'I'm good.' Man, I have a lot of different issues that I'm definitely working through and working on.
~ Greg Hardy
I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
~ Zendaya
A thing can be too pretty and perfect, so if you kick some dirt on it, then it feels like you wore it around a bit.
~ Samuel Ervin Beam
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
~ Conrad Hall
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.
~ Karen Armstrong
I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.
~ Karen E. Quinones Miller
Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones.
~ Karen Hawkins
There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Fact: you can never know another person completely. Fact: you are born alone and die alone. Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it. Fact: love is not perfect. Fact: neither am I.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Do I love him? Yes. Is he perfect? No. Am I? No. Will I leave him? No. Okay, that's resolved. Time for a nap.
~ Karen Marie Moning
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that he tried again. At least we imprisoned our mistakes. Your god permits his to roam free. At a mere few thousand years old your creation myths are far more absurd than ours.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sok a fájdalom, de az öröm is. A kettÅ' közötti feszültség adja az élet lényegét. Nem tökéletes a világ, de valóságos. Az illúzió nem helyettesítheti. Inkább élek kemény, de valódi életet, mint a hazugságok édes életét.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I can't not misstep. I have feet.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Fact: you can never know another person completely. Fact: you are born alone and die alone. Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it. Fact: love is not perfect. Fact:
~ Karen Marie Moning
But if you find yourself smarting from an unfortunate comment in a usually loving friendship, I have three words for you: Get over it. Mention it if you need to, work it out, reaffirm your friendship, then get over it and go on. You know, the Lord didn't mess up. He's placed you and me smack dab in the middle of chaotic relationships with imperfect people because the bumpy road of loving and being loved leaves us richer as a result.
~ Karen Scalf Linamen
Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.
~ Karen White
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
~ Karl Kraus
Mandy's friends gathered around her as she told the story-the true and somewhat heartbreaking story of her first time. It hadn't been perfect, but she now knew that imperfection was okay-part of life, even. And for the first time in her life, Mandy Walters was realizing that she could live with imperfection.
~ Kate Brian
If my life were a book, I would have masking tape holding my hinges together. My pages would be loose, my edges tattered and my boards exposed, the front flyleaf torn and the leather mottled and moth-eaten. I'd have to take myself apart and put myself back together, as any good book restoration expert would do.
~ Kate Carlisle
The righteousness of the flawed is frightening.
~ Kate Holden
You don't have to be perfect. Pretty happy is pretty great.
~ Kate Hudson
Je me demandais comment il était possible que notre monde ne soit plus qu'une accumulation de défauts.
~ Fumiko Hayashi
Poor performance was a common failing of most new programs. The annals of software amply showed this; nearly every landmark system, from IBM's 360 to the various flavors of Unix to Microsoft's Windows, was released in an immature state and evolved over time to win broader acceptance. Indeed, people expected the first commercial release of a new program to contain flaws of all sorts.
~ G. Pascal Zachary
Ci ho pensato spesso. Dicono che i bambini nascono dall'amore reciproco tra i genitori. Non mi risulta. Forse nascono perché l'amore tra i genitori non è perfetto. Forse vengono al mondo attraverso una crepa che c'è fra i due genitori. Non so.
~ G.B. Edwards