Imperfect Quotes - Page 16

• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Rebel, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

  Judith Viorst

  Children, Giving Up, Trying

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing written in any book is a perfect reflection of truth.(...)
  No teachings and no bibles on earth are perfect. They can never be
  so, for this is an imperfect universe. The perfection isn't here,
  it is in the worlds beyond, and this is what we are trying to reach.

  Harold Klemp

  Teaching, Book, Reflection

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• The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Perfect

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• If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Dream, Hurt, Regret

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

  Deborah Needleman

  Home, Tears, Life Is

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• People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn't. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Mean

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  I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

  Shane Koyczan

  Acceptance, Imperfection, Joy

  FaceBook post by Shane Koyczan from Apr 08, 2013

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• Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

  Chris Hadfield

  Dad, Fatherhood, Tasks

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• It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfect, Needs, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.213, Penguin

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• It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Good Day, Bad Day

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Love, Beautiful, Heart

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• With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report always being tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other.

  Thucydides

  Memories, Eye, Hands

  "The History of the Peloponnesian War".

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• ... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with many of the sheets lost, others displaced, and with spurious passages interpolated by a later hand. ... Like the scholar with his manuscript, the embryologist has by a process of careful and critical examination to determine where the gaps are present, to detect the later insertions, and to place in order what has been misplaced.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Hands, Order, Records

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• As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.

  Sloane Crosley

  Art, Doctors, Definitions

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• Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

  Sloane Crosley

  Crush, Ex Boyfriend, Dancing

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• You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Smell, Effort

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• Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, New York, Golf

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• Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?

  Sloane Crosley

  Sleep, Towns, Refreshing

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.91, Portobello Books

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• I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them!

  Mariama Bâ

  Moving, Men, Expression

  Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.88, Heinemann

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• The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order, beauty and joy, goodness and love. The idea of God that man has in his being is the wonder of all wonders. He has felt in the depths of his life that what appears as imperfect is the manifestation of the perfect.

  Victor Gollancz

  God, Song, Order

  "Man and God: Passages Chosen and Arranged to Express a Mood about the Human and the Divine".

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• 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

  God, Heart, Humble

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.676

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• 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

  Humorous, Journey, Perfect

  "Drew Barrymore Will Forbid Her Daughter From Posing For Playboy". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

  V V Brown

  Change, Autumn, Thinking

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• After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

  Lucy Robinson

  Life, Perfect Life, Persons

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