Quotes About Imperfection

I drew a chair up beside her and sang. All I do is dream of you the whole night through . . . It was a horrible rendition, and I quite enjoyed attempting it, setting the notes free from the song as each one went farther and farther astray.

I do think imperfection is underrated

chapter 1. There is a stigma attached to being anything less than perfect, and we feel exposed when we find out through critiques that we aren't.

Sometimes poets have to be imperfect so their poetry can be perfect.

For looking down the ladder of our deeds, The rounds seem slender: all past work appears Unto the doer faulty: the heart bleeds, And pale Regret comes weltering in tears, To think how poor our best has been, how vain, Beside the excellence we would attain.

The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow!

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

There is a crack in everything

Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in...

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture. They have no need for documentation of provenance. Wabi-sabi-ness in no way depends on knowledge of the creator's background or personality. In fact, it is best if the creator is no distinction, invisible, or anonymous.

no political or religious movement is a perfect expression of that movement's 'essence' as laid down in its sacred writings

But perfection is a nervy business, because the moment you spot the tiniest flaw it's ruined.

But perfection is a nervy business, because the moment you spot the tiniest flaw it's ruined. Perfection

Maybe it's that the world is an imperfect place, but if you spend all your time looking for something better you'll only end up somewhere even worse.