Quotes About Imperfection

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

You can't just love bits of someone. All of me, why not take all of me----isn't that what the song says? I know exactly how bad Tony can be and well, if he can love me like he does, despite my faults, well... I can do the same for him.

David was far from perfect, but he got the main message—life is about God, not us.

Who are you to judge the life i live i know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be. but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect.

uncorrected for the moment, and was

There is no perfection in human things, only in the world of Forms.

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.

An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.

Man is...a thinking erratum, that's what he is. Every season of life is an edition that corrects the one before and which will also be corrected itself until the definitive edition, which the publisher gives to the worms gratis.

I don't care if there are cracks in us, we are still us. We don't have to be perfect to be right.

The moment slipped away, but because it wasn't perfect, it was the most perfect one she could remember having

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.