Quotes About Imperfection

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

Nobody's perfect and nobody is without mistakes. The only thing you have to make sure of is you keep improving.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

l'imperfezione va oltre. E' tolleranza, rispetto dell'usato e attenzione ai segni del tempo. E' capacita' di badare alla merce, e non alla confezione.

Non si puo' essere sempre moderni, impeccabili e aggiornati. L'ultimo grido e' interessante. Ma non occorre sempre gridare. Qualche volta e' meglio abbassare la voce, e limitarsi a parlare.

hey, we're all fucked up, aren't we? she said dipping her bread so far into her soup it drowned and couldn't easily be rescued.

When love is conditional we feel imperfect and unlovable.

Um grande obstáculo em um relacionamento de um casal é a fantasia da perfeição, a exigência de que o outro deve ser perfeito ou de que eu mesmo devo ser perfeito.

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

They say there's no such thing as a perfect pearl - that nothing from nature can ever be truly perfect.

The Christian life isn't about being perfect and deserving God's favor. It's about taking a few steps, stumbling, getting back up, and taking a few more steps.

As Carl Jung repeatedly declared, our goal is wholeness, not perfection. People living soulcentrically are not untroubled or unchallenged. They are not beyond experiencing times of confusion, mistakes, and tragedies. They have by no means healed all their wounds. They are simply on a path to wholeness, to becoming fully human- with all the inevitable defects and distresses inherent in any human story and with all the promise held by our uniquely human imagination.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

We can not love everyone and be loved by everyone. It would be perfection, and nothing is perfect in this world.

The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.

I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.