We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
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.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
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