Quotes About Imperfection

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in...

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud...

Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.

Try for perfect communication, but give yourself a break if you're not there yet.

Perfection is my willingness to be less than perfect

All an organism could do from day to day was shore itself up in some rough semblance of its previous condition. The same was true, from moment to moment, for the state of the whole universe. By one means or another, everyone was an imperfect imitation

All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

añoraba a su anterior editor, que decía preferir la novela imperfecta de un escritor con talento, que la novela perfecta de un escritor mediocre. En la obra de un escritor con talento puedes hallar una frase, una sola, que te cambiela vida. En un escritor mediocre lo más que podrás encontrar es corrección gramatical.

Since childhood, I've been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Small nonlinearities were easy to disregard. People who conduct experiments learn quickly that they live in an imperfect world.

I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

I am not perfect. I say stupid things sometimes. I laugh when I'm not suppose to. I have scars left by people who did me wrong. I'm a little crazy and probably won't change. Love me or not. But I make one promise that if I love you, I do it with a full heart.

I am not perfect. I say stupid things sometimes. I laugh when I'm not suppose to. I have scars left by people that did me wrong. I'm a little crazy and probably won't change. Love me or not. But I make one promise, that if I love you, I do it with a full heart.

I am not perfect. I say stupid things sometimes. I laugh when I'm not suppose to. I have scars left by people that did me wrong. I'm a little crazy and probably won't change. Love me or not. But I make one promise, that if I love you, I do it with a full heart.

Life isn't meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED.

Why is it, "When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

We are not born to be perfect. That's why God sacrificed Jesus for us...so we could get forgiveness!

You and I need to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.

Life is full of screwups. "Stop judging your life only by the screwups, I'm always going to screw-up. We all do. We all screw-up.. But none of us screw-up, all the time.