Quotes About Imperfection

If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.

I love that world more, I think, because it is perfectible. Because I have perfected it. The actual world is the random garbage fire it always is. There's not a goddamn thing I can do about the actual world's code.

He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long.

He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

But sometimes, you have to make your game in the time that you have. If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?" Lambiase's mother would like to see her son remarry some day. "I know what you mean, Ma. Doesn't seem like they're going in with their eyes closed," Lambiase says. "He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

Nadie es perfecto, y lo que ella sabe con toda certeza es que él es bello y él le hace sentirse bella. Y cuando ella habla, él en realidad escucha. Y cuando él la mira, él realmente la mira.

In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long. No

Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works. He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, and they don't remember those for very long.

Ha leído lo suficiente para saber que no hay antología en que todas las historias sean perfectas. Unas dan en el clavo. Otras fallan. Con suerte, hay una excepcional. De todos modos, al final la gente solo se acuerda de las excepcionales, y no durante mucho tiempo.

They know there's no such thing as perfect.

Life is Imperfect, God created us to try to make it perfect.

We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.

Don't you know?" he asked gently. "The flaw is the thing we love.

A man must have his faults.

I know what's wrong with me; and knowing your own flaws is the beginning of wisdom.

we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen,

As a parent, you can't completely avoid making mistakes. Accept it.

No husband comes in a perfect package. No husband can do it all. Your job as a wife is to fight to stay sensitive to your husband's strengths. Resist the temptation to compare his weaknesses to another husband's strengths, while forgetting your husband's strengths and that other husband's weaknesses.

None of us can live up to the law; all of us will break it. Marriage teaches us — indeed, it practically forces us — to learn to live by extending grace and forgiveness to people who have sinned against us. If I can learn to forgive and accept my imperfect spouse, I'll be well equipped to offer forgiveness outside my marriage. Forgiveness, I'm convinced, is so unnatural an act that it takes practice to perfect it.

We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...

Do you know how gemologists tell a fake emerald from a real one? The fakes are perfect. Real emeralds have flaws. None of us is perfect.