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Quotes About Imperfection

We don't choose our flaws, unfortunately.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me. Of course it's not!
~ Sophie Kinsella
No one's life has to be perfect... Don't put so much pressure on yourself... Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me. Of course it's not!
~ Sophie Kinsella
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Things will go wrong or end up differently than you had imagined, and that's OK. Life isn't about being perfect. It's about being the best you can possibly be and finding the good in everything.
~ Haley Pullos
Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.
~ Hoda Kotb
Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.
~ James Alan Gardner
In life, there are no perfect affections.
~ James Merrill
I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.
~ Jane Asher
There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.
~ Jason Diamond
Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.
~ Jessica Valenti
Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
~ Joan D. Vinge
This life isn't bad for a first draft.
~ Joan Konner
… mess is the material from which life and creativity are built …
~ Ralph D. Stacey
Error is human, perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.
~ Paul Gitwaza
Nothing is perfect and this is the perfect reason for men to keep on learning, understanding and discovering.
~ Dee Dee Artner
Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.
~ John Owen
God gets glory when two very different and very imperfect people forge a life of faithfulness in the furnace of affliction by relying on Christ.
~ John Piper
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
~ John Ruskin
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
~ John Ruskin
For though my rhyme be ragged, Tattered and jagged, Rudely rain-beaten, Rusty and moth-eaten, If ye take well therewith, It hath in it some pith.
~ John Skelton
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
~ John Steinbeck
Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing it, is confessedly liable, still more than in almost any other art, to confuse and impede the process, and destroy all ground of confidence in the result.
~ John Stuart Mill