Quotes About Imperfection

So the human heart was created in the context of the perfection of the garden of Eden. But we don't live there now. This is why our instincts keep firing off the lie that perfection is possible. We have pictures of perfection etched into the very DNA of our souls.

Anytime we feel not good enough we deny the powerful truth that we are a glorious work of God in progress. We are imperfect because we are unfinished.

Los cambios imperfectos son pasos pequeños de progreso envueltos en gracia… un progreso imperfecto.

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

The rain comes down, baby, and we've all got sixteen buckets and seventeen holes in the roof.

perfection is not a requirement for creating great relationships.

Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving--Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving—Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

Autobiography just isn't good or bad enough to work as fiction… Unrevised, real life is just a mess.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

The Dead were no better than us – they made mistakes, behaved badly, lost the plot, lost hope, treated each other cruelly – and, as we have seen, they certainly cannot be said to have had better lives. Ultimately, though, whatever they started with, and however badly it sometimes ended, all of our distinguished Dead did something that made a difference – and they did it by making something of themselves.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

That's the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can't make them all better.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.