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• No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

  George Boole

  Beautiful, Giving, May

  "Comic sections: the book of mathematical jokes, humour, and wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, p. 107, 1993.

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• We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

  Emilio Estevez

  Beauty, Beautiful, Broken

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• The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  People, Perfect, Quiet

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• Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Being Yourself, Positivity

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• I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Inspirational, Failure, Thinking

  "Talking to Myself (The Past, the Feminine, the Vain)". Book by Yohji Yamamoto and Kiyokazu Washida, 2002.

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• Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  People, Worry, Perfection

  FaceBook post by Isaac Mizrahi from Apr 18, 2011

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• Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of
  worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection
  to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and
  how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking,
  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.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Morning, Mean

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• To love beauty is to see light.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Spiritual, Light

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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• I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

  Sonam Kapoor

  Thinking, Perfect, Add

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

  Doug Larson

  Nice, Perfection, Joy

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• Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

  John Bosco

  Imperfection, Catholic, Trying

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• Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tense, Existence, Present Tense

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

  Randall Jarrell

  Mean, Novelists, Moral

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Mistake, Errors

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.171

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• Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.

  Harry S. Truman

  Perfect, Action, Beats

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• No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Heart, Reflection

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• Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sri Lanka, Long, Perfection

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• I believe in the Bible and I try to follow the Bible. I know I'm an imperfect person … I'm not making myself an angel because I'm not an angel and I'm not a devil either. I try to be the best I can and I try to do what I think is right.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Angel, Simple

  "Site Explores Michael Jackson's Faith" by Andy Argyrakis, www.christianitytoday.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

  John Locke

  Funny, Money, Shoes

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• My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.

  Margaret Kilgallen

  Thinking, Hands, Humans

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• Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed. Being self-righteous, one is not respected. Boasting of self, one's merit is unrecognized. Glorifying of self, one loses the opportunity for greatness. From the viewpoint of Tao These represent imperfect Te, Valued as are filth or disease.

  Laozi

  Opportunity, Greatness, Self

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• At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

  Pema Chodron

  Ignorance, Roots, Causes

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

  Joan Didion

  Inspirational, Loss, Bereavement

  "The Year of Magical Thinking". Book by Joan Didion, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• 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.

  Teresa of Avila

  Memories, Eye, Evil

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1962). “Life of Saint Teresa: Written by Herself”

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• Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Moving, Imperfection, Doe

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.37, Fig

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