Quotes About Imperfection

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Wholeness is the goal [of life], but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness-mine, yours, ours-need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life.

First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial. No matter how we devote ourselves to reading and research, teaching requires a command of content that always eludes our grasp. Second, the students we teach are larger than life and even more complex. To see them clearly and see them whole and respond to them wisely in the moment requires a fusion of Freud and Solomon that few of us achieve.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

You cannot look at a person, and say, 'If I could change this or that, if I could pick what I want and discard other things, I could love this one.' Such a love is pale and weak—and doomed to failure.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.

Don't be afraid of finishing a book and putting it out there for the world to see. If you're waiting for perfect, your wait will never end.

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we'd like to be. And that sucks. But when you're confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Lovely as the moon: not flawless, perhaps, but perfect.

Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi.

You wouldn't think a girl in bandages with a blackened eye could be beautiful, but Denna was. Lovely as the moon: not flawless, perhaps, but perfect.

It was nice just being near her. You wouldn't think a girl in bandages with a blackened eye could be beautiful, but Denna was. Lovely as the moon: not flawless, perhaps, but perfect. The

Kuka tahansa voi rakastaa jotakin koska. Se on yhtä helppoa kuin pennin pistäminen taskuun. Mutta että rakastaa jotakin siitä huolimatta. Että tuntee virheet ja rakastaa niitäkin. Se on harvinaista, puhdasta ja täydellistä.

Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

Oh yes. Fulcrum had broken, but that wasn't wrong. Eggs break. Horses break. Waves break. Of course he broke. How else could someone so all certain-centered let his perfect answers out into the world? Some things were jut too true to stay.

Milova? pre nie?o vie každý. No milova? napriek chybám, ba dokonca milova? aj tie, je prejavom zriedkavej a ?istej náklonnosti.

Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect. Stanchion