Quotes About Imperfection

Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.

I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity.

Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden.

I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in manners that are interesting, not only melancholy. With writing, we have second chances.

The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction.

This is what we're like. We are broken individuals, committing to what will be a broken union in a broken world.

I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.

cuando nos amamos, aceptamos y valoramos sin juzgar nuestras carencias, nuestra imperfección y nuestra vulnerabilidad, no perdemos tiempo en pelearnos por cambiar. Es entonces cuando el amor y la compasión crecen en nosotros y, para nuestra sorpresa, el cambio se produce

Nosotros los padres no pudimos hacerlo mejor. Con lo que sabíamos, con lo que teníamos, quisimos, probamos, intentamos... algunas cosas nos salieron bien y otras no.

Perhaps in order to write a really great book, you must be rather unaware of the fact. You can slave away at it and change every adjective to some other adjective, but perhaps you can write better if you leave the mistakes.

There is no poet who is the total voice of love, hate, despair. That is, the great verses of humanity have still not been written. This imperfections should raise our hopes.

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.

The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.

Perfection would be a bore, wouldn't it? CAMPBELL: It would have to be. It would be inhuman

we wouldn't ask why a rose with damaged petals

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

We ought not to flatter ourselves with any idea of "absolute" or "final" rigor in contemporary mathematics. In a science that is not yet dead and mummified, there is not and cannot be anything perfect.

Almost is such a wonderful word, don't you think?" said the shopkeeper with a wink. "So full of wiggle rom and loopholes, so not absolutely anything.

Quem ama a perfeição? Não, o amor quer cuidado e o cuidado necessita dos erros da pessoa amada, necessita de feridas, de fragilidade. O amor quer curar, e a perfeição não tem necessidade de cura. Não se pode amar a perfeição, simplesmente adorar.

The more time you spend with someone, the more you realize they're not perfect. Everyone comes from a different place with different problems.

Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right.

I'm not perfect. I'm unfulfilled.

all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for

Mostly, I enjoy my failings. Until I don't.