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• A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.

  Taylor Mali

  Fall, Perfect, Want

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• The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Perfection, Misery

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• We don't have to be perfect to be a blessing. We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection to cover our imperfection, knowing that one day we will finally be all that Christ saved us for and wants us to be.

  Gigi Graham

  Christian, Real, Blessing

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Piano, Perfect, Doe

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• By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

  Zeno of Elea

  Men, Silence, My Own

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Courage, Mean, Peaceful

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• It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Complaining, Littles, Little Things

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Fall, New Beginnings

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• Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Order, Secret, Haute Couture

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• Imperfections define perfection

  Colleen Hoover

  Perfection

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you.

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, Style, Energy

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• A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Perfection, Desire

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.186

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• From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Light, Evil, Elude

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1859). “Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life”, p.125

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• Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Chance, Opinion, Should

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• The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

  Joseph Addison

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.195

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• None, none descends into himself, to find
  The secret imperfections of his mind:
  But every one is eagle-ey'd to see
  Another's faults, and his deformity.

  John Dryden

  Eagles, Mind, Secret

  John Dryden (1760). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...”, p.379

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• If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Humble, Feet

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.81

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• Evil then results from imperfection.

  Philip James Bailey

  Evil, Results

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.312

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• Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Perfection, Enough

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• My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Photographer, Wealth

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• I do think imperfection's underrated.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Perfection, Underrated

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• Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Support, Political

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Film

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

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• ... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

  George Eliot

  Perfect, Inward

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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