Quotes About Imperfect Love

#1. I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?

Velcrow Ripper

#2. Most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Anne Lamott

#3. Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

Margaret Deland

#4. We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

Richard Rohr

#5. My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.

Miriam Toews

#6. The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Hermann Hesse

#7. If God is love, and nothing imperfect can exist in the presence of God; then healing is simply the process of bringing love to the places within us that are hurting.

Habib Sadeghi

#8. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

#9. She called my name.
She called me Mark.
I love it when someone uses my name at unexpected times. I don't know why. But, I just love it.

A.A. Gupte

#10. He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.

Michael Grant

#11. If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

T.D. Jakes

#12. Our people, our history, our struggle is more than a war, more than a fall, more than a favorite dish, more than one monolithic political opinion, more than one dialect, one gender, one nation, one flag. Respect and love to the diaspora - as imperfect as I am, I am one of you and I am yours.

Bao Phi

#13. No love is perfect; it is beautiful even when it is imperfect.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.

Joseph Grenny

#15. Real happiness comes from loving you're inner self and excepting the things you can't change. Flaws perfectly imperfect.

Shellie Palmer

#16. The beauty of grace is that God chooses to use imperfect people to demonstrate His perfect glory, love and Truth to this world.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#17. And now here he was. With his love and his hope and, yes, his imperfections, that, in a few months if everything mirrored the events of my prior life, I'd soon trade in for the love and hope of another man who was equally imperfect though in far different ways.

Allison Winn Scotch

#18. I pull her against me, not to make love to her, but just to love her. To hold something good and imperfect and fucked up, and to feel someone holding all of that in return.

Hugh Howey

#19. I was moving around with my imperfect, broken pieces until you came across and stitched my flaws with your words.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#20. I feel like I finally understand how family love is. Tangled, wounded, and wonderful. Imperfect. A forever love.

Hannah Tunnicliffe

#21. For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

Johnny Rich

#22. I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other's humanness. None of us is perfect.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#23. For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Liza M. Wiemer

#24. You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

Jasper Fforde

#25. Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.

Francis De Sales

#26. When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

Nick Laird

#28. Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.

Selwyn Hughes

#29. I am what you see. A woman. Flawed. Imperfect. You can't label me. I'm not any one thing. I'm many things and not all of them are good. The only certainty is that I love you.

Sandra Marton

#30. I love that you call me when you are agitated. I am honoured by your trust. I find, too, that I can be imperfect with you. Such a relief."(65)

Kevin Mwachiro

#31. In a world like that, there'd be no need for love anymore either. if everyone were perfect, there would be no need to look out for others. Sympathy or Love is needed because people are imperfect. A perfect human cannot love anyone.

Tamiki Wakaki

#32. He claimed that no act or thought that did not have love as its purpose was of God. Love was the secret of God's perfection. Man was imperfect only because of his inability to live life as a continuous act of love.

Michael Puttonen

#33. Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.

Sandy Swenson

#34. God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

Joshua L. Liebman

#35. Was it not because I loved man all-too-much? Now I love God. man I love not. Man is for me too imperfect a thing. Love of man would kill me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Perfect combinations are rare in an imperfect world.

Peter Hale

#37. Mia, I already told you I wasn't going anywhere. This is where I want to be.

Fabiola Francisco

#38. David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitoland reminds us that sometimes imperfect is just perfect.

Ruta Sepetys

#39. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.

Louise Erdrich

#40. Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

Orson Scott Card

#41. The reason I have felt so empty, so lost at times, is because you were missing.

Fabiola Francisco

#42. Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal ...

Henry David Thoreau

#43. Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

Hannah More

#44. Why," said the saint, "did I go into the forest and the desert? Was it not because I loved mankind far too well? Now I love God! Mankind I do not love; mankind is a thing too imperfect for me. Love of mankind would be fatal to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#45. Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

Michael Swanwick

#46. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us.
Else what use is love at all?

Oscar Wilde

#47. Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

William Wordsworth

#48. The sooner we give up the illusion that a church must be perfect in order to love it, the sooner we quit pretending and start admitting we're all imperfect and need grace. This is the beginning of real community.

Rick Warren

#49. Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.

John Ruskin

#50. Is it better to have something perfect that doesn't fit or something imperfect that fits?

Buffi Neal

#51. So get on with life, with love, with service - fully realizing that God already has the perfect service he requires of us in his Son and now our neighbor needs our imperfect help.

Michael S. Horton

#52. I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Drew Barrymore

#53. I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

Anne Sexton

#54. Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

#55. We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly ... Only after we have lost everything, are we free to do anything ... Throw things out there and not be perfect and not have answers to anything and see if people understand.

Angelina Jolie

#56. You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Brene Brown

#57. He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richelle Mead

#58. Todays uplifting phrase is love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse.

Marian Keyes

#59. I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough to love someone who already knows God.

R. YS Perez

#60. Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

Brene Brown

#61. It is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together ...

Judith Guest

#62. To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)

Victoria Moran

#63. When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.

Patti Callahan Henry

#64. Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being among imperfect human beings again."
"Jenny

Kurt Vonnegut

#65. A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#66. I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

Sri Chinmoy

#67. We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...

Gary Thomas

#68. Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

Brene Brown

#69. I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

Therese Of Lisieux

#70. When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.

Elizabeth Aston

#71. There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Ilyas Kassam

#72. If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect.

Marian Keyes

#73. Spirit-led Jesus followers recognize that they are imperfect Christians working with other imperfect Christians to serve a perfect Christ. When we love and give to one another, then we grow as individuals and as the family of God.136

Mark Driscoll

#74. A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#75. Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Karen Armstrong

#76. God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Elizabeth George

#77. We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

Albert Schweitzer

#78. Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#79. We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

Dejan Stojanovic

#80. Love is imperfect. You just have to know what level of crazy you're willing to accept from someone you share a bed with.

Cole Jaimes

#81. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#82. Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.

K.J. Bishop

#83. Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool.

Cecil Baldwin

#84. We are all imperfect creatures, love. I don't want perfect. I just want you.

Kristen Callihan

#85. "Love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly.. and he is far from being perfect. But there's something about him that captivates my heart.What's so good about him anyway? Is it his radiant smile? His charisma? Maybe it's his attractive face? I don't know. But..I'm falling.. hard.

Bianca B. Bernardino

#86. When you are ready to accept him for the imperfect man that he is, and find happiness in his imperfect company, you have definitely found love, and the two of you can create the perfect world for each other!

Kimberly Ann Moore

#87. Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

#88. I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real.

Marc Jacobs

#89. What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.

Patricia Gaffney

#90. Everyone deserves to feel beautiful. It is your God-given right to look in the mirror and love what you see. Never mind the imperfections -we're all imperfect, after all. But people tend to get so caught up in what they are lacking, they forget to appreciate all that they have.

Jenna Moreci

#91. But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

Siegfried Sassoon

#92. I hope my prayers reach you. My imperfect children ... The imperfect imitation sun ... continues to love you all ... now and forever.

Kaori Yuki

#93. So there we were; two perfectly imperfect people coming together in a perfectly imperfect world.

Craig R. Key

#94. Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth
nothing is so simple as that.

Susan Cooper

#95. We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.

Kathryn Schulz

#96. He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

E. M. Forster