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• There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

  Tara Brach

  Saying Yes, Messy, Liberating

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• It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

  Robert Fisk

  Jobs, Imperfect World, Worry

  "Robert Fisk, Injured in Line of Duty" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 10, 2001.

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• Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Space, Feelings

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• The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Lying, Father, Hands

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• The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Half, Mysterious

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.161

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• I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only as works of mechanism, but works of intelligence, not only as under laws, but under a Lawgiver, wise and good.

  James McCosh

  Wise, Views, Law

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.147

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• It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

  Yasmin Ahmad

  Perfect, Together, Made

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• I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

  Pete Doherty

  Vain

  The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006.

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• I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

  Mark Sanford

  Men, Grace, Saved

  "Reps. Rogers, Smith spar over Benghazi; Mark Sanford talks political redemption". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2013.

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• Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

  Laozi

  Perfection, Taoism, Willingness

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• There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.

  Dana Cowin

  Needs, Mouths, Bites

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

  Ezra Stiles

  Wisdom, Justice, World

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• Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

  Robert Breault

  Appreciation, Children, Flower

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• [E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Practice, Virtue, Values

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.

  Stephen Manes

  Song, Fun, Stupid

  Stephen Manes (1998). “Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!”, Yearling

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• Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Two, Years, Needs

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• Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

  Anais Nin

  Acceptance, Teach

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• If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Differences, People, Perfect

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• Identify the problem.”)
  I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.

  Shoma Morita

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Imperfect Person

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• Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

  Chuck Hagel

  Government, People, Institutions

  "Former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 6, 2012.

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• I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

  David S. Goyer

  People, Stories, Telling Stories

  "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Real, Imperfect Person, People

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks THE CLIENT LIST, Using Social Media, and Directing the Season Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Forgiveness, Voice, Feet

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• The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

  Stephen Daldry

  Differences, People, Matter

  "Reading 'The Reader' with Stephen Daldry". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perfect, Decision, Judgement

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