Quotes About Imperfection

This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right.

The desire for perfection is like a pit of wet coal silt: it will grab your boots like iron hands and never let you go. 13.

Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later.

Mohammad, left a lot to be desired.

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)

If all men were perfect, then every individual would be replaceable by anyone else. From the very imperfection of men follows the indispensability and inexchangeability of each individual; for each is imperfect in his own fashion.

I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely. There I sat.

That wild flash of imagination, that lightning crack of genius in the middle of them which leaves them flawed and imperfect, but starred with poetry.

We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know.

compuse un madrigal al negro humo de sus pestañas, al pálido gris de sus ojos inexpresivos, a las cinco pecas asímetricas de su nariz respingona, al vello rubio de sus miembros tostados; pero lo rompí y ahora no puedo recordarlo.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings others.

Only God is perfect. For the rest of us, there are apologies.

Sylvain flung out his hands. "You think my father never screwed up with me? You think I never screwed up with him? You don't get only one chance, for God's sake. You get five million chances, second after second every day. You don't have to get every single one of them perfect. Merde. It's not chocolate.

You can't work me, Liv. I know you're a bitch, I know you're cranky, I know you're loving, I know you're smart and funny, I know you're giving and generous. I'm not walking off because you're not flawless. I don't want a diamond, I want a wife. - Marc to Olivia

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on, pet.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.

Todos temos defeitos, querida. Cada um de nós. E, acredite em mim, todos cometemos erros. (...) Você só precisa dar uma boa olhada em si mesma, mudar o que precisa ser mudado e seguir em frente, querida.

Do not let perfection and order become your masters! These are the two most dangerous traps set for the spiritual Murid. True spirituality proceeds from an honoring and awareness of chaos and imperfection. Who would dare untangle a rainforest?

Ma anche a lui che non si è mosso è toccato qualcosa, un destino – quella sua idea che le cose bisogna capirle, aggiustarle, che il mondo è mal fatto e che a tutti interessa cambiarlo.

We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our "self-improvement.

None of us has become perfect (Phil. 3:12). None of us does everything right. None of us is so wise that we always speak the right word or so strong that we always do the right thing. Remembering this keeps us humble.

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.

...for nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.