Quotes About Imperfection

Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.

Perhaps that was the moment you grew up, when you learned your parents were just as fallible as everyone else.

but if you hold off till everything's perfect, think of all the great kisses you'll miss.

If you hold off till everything's perfect, think of all the great kisses you'll miss.

We have all been found guilty of being human. There are worse crimes.

Humanity is worse than flies.

You knew what was real not by its qualities but by its imperfections.

People aren't tidy creations to be stacked neatly in the Tupperware or poured in premeasured quantities from a box into the Cuisinart with no spills; everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess.

That's why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a place where everything is perfect and we have no more challenges. As admirable as setting goals and reaching them maybe, you can't get so focused on accomplishing your goals that you make the mistake of not enjoying where you are right now.

God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He'd have no one to use

As good as the people are in your life, there are no perfect people. There is no perfect boss, no perfect friend, no perfect neighbor, no perfect spouse. Give people room to be human. Quit expecting them to perform perfectly all the time.

It must be nice, being perfect, but some of us have to live in this world.

When you know you're worth loving, you can be a little imperfect. Hell, look at me—a lot imperfect. It makes all the difference in the world when you believe someone loves you enough that they don't overlook the spot and the messed up hair. They just add it to the things about you that make them love you all the more.

I certainly hope you aren't perfect. Else I'll have to make shit up to punish you.

Act! act!—it is to that end we are here. Should we fret ourselves that others are not so perfect as we are, when we ourselves are only somewhat less imperfect than they? Is not this our greatest perfection,—the vocation which has been given to us,—that we must labour for the perfecting of others? Let us rejoice in the prospect of that widely extended field which we are called to cultivate! Let us rejoice that power is given to us, and that our task is infinite!

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

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.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.