Quotes About Imperfection

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

"I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities."

Love isn't safe. And whoever you love will hurt you. It's part of the human experience. No one is perfect…people make mistakes. The secret is to focus on what they do right and decide what quirks you can live with.

The only people who make no mistakes are dead people. I saw a man last week who has not made a mistake for four hundred years. He was a mummy in the Egyptian department of the British Museum." - H.L. Wayland

We just have to accept that life is perfectly imperfect.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

when you are able to forgive yourself and to forgive people around you for not being perfect, I will recognize you as My child.

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough

En ook werden zij verlamd door de vreemde schoonheid van het tafereel: die wondermooie jongen met aan zijn voeten die wanschapen, twintig jaar oudere zwakzinnige, terwijl in de moestuin de pauw naar hen keek met een waaier van vijftig ogen.

A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

My disappointment had a clear source. I would try to make things perfect and I would fail, over and over again. I couldn't just love someone and be loved back. That was too easy. That didn't feel right. I was more familiar with dissatisfaction. I was more at home with longing. As I moved me things into that dusty, tiny, haunted house, I looked around and thought, "This will never be enough." It was exactly what I wanted.

Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.

The world's not perfect, tomboy. Sometimes we have fires and fistfights and lose friends.

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.