Imperfection Quotes - Page 11

• True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

  Sara Bareilles

  Giving, Bravery, Precious Gifts

  "Sara Bareilles Shares Her Dos and Don'ts of Being Fearless". www.glamour.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Men, Mirrors

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.211, Paramahansa Yogananda

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• Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence, hone your dreams, negotiate with your shadow, cure your ignorance, shed your pettiness, heighten your drive to look for the best in people, and soften your heart -- even as you always accept yourself for exactly who you are with all of your so-called imperfections.

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Commitment, Heart

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.8, Frog Books

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• The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.

  Lisette Model

  Real, Expression, Knowing

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply
  sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your
  indifference.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Faults, Indifference

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

  Tara Brach

  Being Different, Relax, Moments

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• Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Perfection, Desire, Rooms

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• As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.

  Simone Weil

  Fate, One Day, Saint

  "Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)".

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• All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Funny, Easier, Tolerate

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

  Peter Prange

  Perfection, Life Is, Strive

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)

  Erasmus Darwin

  Animal, Parent, Branches

  Erasmus Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ...”, p.480

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• I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Fighting, Destiny

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• Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

  Arnold Palmer

  Greatness, Swings, Ideas

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• Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Accomplishment, Vain, Theme

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 1, l. 265

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• Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

  Susan Sontag

  Perfection, Looks, Magazines

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

  Katherine Moennig

  Stage, Audience

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• So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mistake, May, Next

  "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking", 2010.

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Lunch

  Reflection, Glasses, Mirrors

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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• In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection

  Mulla Sadra

  Rooms, Existence, Non Existence

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• 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

  Style, Snapshots, Lovers

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Regret, Heart, Sadness

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• Ever since the Christmas of 1953, 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

  Christmas, Home, Loss

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• History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Frustration, Our Generation, Tolerance

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• It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Beauty

  Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

  Beverly Engel

  Being Yourself, Unique, Trying

  Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons

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