Quotes About Imperfection

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

Let go of the idea that somehow you can outsmart a first draft. Because I have never met anybody who can.

Eyeliner is a lifelong thing. You'll never get it perfect.

I don't like my lipstick to be too perfect, so what I do is put color in the middle and then dab it with my fingertip.

Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.

We are all human beings. We are not machines that everything you put in comes out perfect.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy.

those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and, moreover, we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.

Perhaps if we stop reducing the text to formulas for personal growth, we can read it as stories of imperfect humans having relations with a perfect God and come to understand the obvious message He is communicating to mankind.

The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.

The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.

I suppose that's the point of this book. There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy. It's a noble ambition, then, to add a chapter to the story of love, and to make our chapter a good one.