We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.
Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.
Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
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