Top 100 Quotes About Imperfection
#2. Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.
Frank Herbert
#3. Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.
Ivor Cutler
#4. There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher.
Steve Maraboli
#5. Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.
Sri Chinmoy
#6. There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
Conrad Hall
#7. I am the product of any imperfection of mine I have never used to make my life better.
Angelos Michalopoulos
#9. The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.
Norman Cousins
#10. Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
Eugene Kennedy
#11. The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.
Junot Diaz
#12. God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
#13. when you hate a girl because she gets to kiss the boy you like, any little imperfection can become a spiteful nickname
Wendy Brant
#14. Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.
Tupac Shakur
#15. In today's climate no one wants imperfection in their leaders. Once a flaw is dug out, as the press is hell-bent to do, it's maximized and twisted until it becomes a bigger issue than a man's record.
Nora Roberts
#16. I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.
Margaret Atwood
#17. From imperfection's murkiest cloud,
Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
One flash of Heaven's glory."
-from "Song of the Universal
Walt Whitman
#18. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.
Emma Raveling
#20. Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.
Lester Thurow
#21. The true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
George Eliot
#22. To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.
John Abercrombie
#23. The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.
Dean Koontz
#25. This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don't be afraid of that.
Dylan O'Brien
#26. The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection.
Tara Brach
#27. A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Oscar Wilde
#28. The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection - and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.
Richard Rohr
#29. I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who fake their perfection.
Charles F. Glassman
#30. In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection
Mulla Sadra
#31. You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even if the thing that is most perfect for you.
Kiera Cass
#32. When one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
George Eliot
#33. Nothing is perfect; nothing is imperfect. Perfection and imperfection reside in your perception.
Debasish Mridha
#34. [The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#35. Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that - because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.
Jerry Spinelli
#36. I'm drawn to the imperfection in him amidst all that surface pretty.
Lauren Blakely
#37. Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this
tendency.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection.
Haruki Murakami
#39. The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.
Swami Vivekananda
#40. Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection.
Rahul Karn
#41. Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.
Annie Besant
#44. You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
Lee H. Hamilton
#45. I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change
Anthony Kiedis
#48. To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
John Ruskin
#49. The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#50. My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.
Frederick Sommer
#51. Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality is ... Spiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work.
Sanjo Jendayi
#52. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
#53. Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
Patricia Arquette
#54. What makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.
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Dean Koontz
#55. A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.
Marsha Blackburn
#56. Maybe, just maybe, the perfection of the world was found in the imperfection.
Peter Monn
#59. It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [ ... ]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.
Mahsa
#62. God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing
#63. To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas
#64. The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
Richard Rohr
#65. The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
Ben Okri
#66. The fact that the task to write perfect software is virtually impossible does not mean you aren't responsible for the imperfection.
Robert C. Martin
#68. Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.
Eric Weiner
#69. Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving
Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.
John Irving
#71. I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you.
Marc Jacobs
#72. Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.
Leot Felton
#73. I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.
Lisette Model
#74. Safety is an illusion, as is faith without temptation. We're imperfect, unlike the gods, but in that imperfection we may yet make them jealous.
Ken Liu
#75. Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
Harold S. Kushner
#76. All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
Wislawa Szymborska
#77. 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
#79. I've learned recently to love imperfection a lot because it shines such a big light on God's grace. And if someone has grace for you that's when you feel their love the most and they see you for who you are and they love you anyway.
Lacey Mosley
#80. Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#81. Education is not a perfect process but it reduces the imperfection in our lives.
Debasish Mridha
#83. I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just ... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.
Marc Jacobs
#84. Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.
Shunryu Suzuki
#85. DARE TO COMPARE
If you're without imperfection, hurl the first insult at a challenged person
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#86. The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
Shaun Tan
#87. Perfection, rather, is the ability to incorporate imperfection! There's no other way to live: You either incorporate imperfection, or you fall into denial. That's how the Spirit moves in or out of our lives. - from Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
Richard Rohr
#88. When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
Swami Vivekananda
#89. When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think.
Pascal Chaumeil
#90. I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.
Ne-Yo
#91. Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.
Kij Johnson
#92. Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.
Joseph R. Cooke
#93. Imperfection would get me farther than perfection.
Richelle Mead
#94. Love is not the mere opening of two souls' doors. Nor is it a palliative to the troubled heart; it is a stimulant. Under its influence, that heart grows until each tiny imperfection is not tiny.
Richard Harvell
#95. Here's how I see the progression of my work: The Gifts of Imperfection - Be you. Daring Greatly - Be all in. Rising Strong - Fall. Get up. Try again.
Brene Brown
#96. If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
Matthew Fox
#97. Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#98. There is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is Imperfection. When you focus too much on one thing, you tend to neglect another.
Jason Salvino
#99. I threw tantrums, I acted stubborn, I was a pain sometimes, but I was still loved. In fact, I was their perfect even in my imperfection.
Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
#100. If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.
Lester Levenson
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