Imperfection Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• ... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

  George Eliot

  Painting, Insight, Staring

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2220, Delphi Classics

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• The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a lot of areas that need to be addressed. If we were perfect we wouldn't be the Church. I think it's the imperfections that allow people to trust that you're working (toward) something.

  Dolores Hart

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  "From Elvis to Jesus: Mother Dolores Hart talks about her extraordinary journey from a blossoming career in Hollywood to something quite different". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

  John Slattery

  Beautiful, Mistake, Self Esteem

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Thinking, Perfect

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• 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

  Love You, Light, Shining

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• Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

  Anton Corbijn

  Perfection, Want, Stuff

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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, Joy, Use

  FaceBook post by Shane Koyczan from Apr 08, 2013

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• Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Mistake, Forgiving

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• I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Mind, Energy

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• A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

  Drew Barrymore

  Meaningful, Pages, Messages

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• It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.

  David Hume

  Men, Reflection, May

  David Hume, Peter Millican (2008). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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• The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Perfection, Noble

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• I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.

  Cher

  Mistake, Voice, My Own

  "New Again: Cher". Interview with Bob Colacello and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.

  Valentina

  Fighting, Worst

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• I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Past

  "Drew Barrymore: People should shut up about my wild past, I’m proud of it". London Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. August 24, 2010.

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• If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Art, Fall, Men

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• Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

  Walter Raleigh

  Evil, Shadow, Vices

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• Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Self, Deny, True Man

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• Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Achievement, Cry

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• I think we are living in a world that is too perfect and things are too retouched. I want to scream at the top of my lungs 'our imperfections are what make us special'

  Erin Wasson

  Thinking, Perfect, Special

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• 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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