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I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting. -- Marc Jacobs
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -- George Soros
Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
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. -- Joseph Addison
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. -- Alden Nowlan
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. -- George Boole
Imperfectios equal beauty. We are all imperfect. -- Miley Cyrus
Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction. -- Harry S. Truman
Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time. -- Harry S. Truman
Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance. -- J. K. Rowling
Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. -- Sarah Dessen
Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one. -- Sandy Swenson
Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property. -- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet -- Neil Peart
The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy. -- Matt Chandler
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments. -- Bella Abzug
It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is. -- Sarah Dessen
Wounds. Broken places.Possibility.Change.Steps toward holiness.Imperfect progress.The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies.Grace.Love.Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before.And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad. -- Lysa TerKeurst
There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies. -- Karen Marie Moning
It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is." -- Sarah Dessen
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. -- Amy Bloom
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. -- Robert Hillyer
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. -- Alexander Hamilton
Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place. -- Judd Nelson
The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day. -- Joyce Meyer
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. -- Doug Larson
You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. -- Brene Brown
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect. -- Sonam Kapoor
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion. -- Andrea Thompson
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect. -- Emilio Estevez
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Sam Keen
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Sam Keen
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. -- Maxwell Maltz
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong. -- Christine Keeler
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. -- Kerry Washington
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. -- John Locke
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect. -- Miley Cyrus
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. -- Wayne Dyer
I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past -- Leo Rosten
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't. -- Steve Harvey
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. -- Jose Marti
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. -- William Lyon Phelps
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. -- Brene Brown
Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried. -- Paloma Faith
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. -- Max Born
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God. -- Annie Besant
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. -- Alice Walker
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality. -- Will Self
Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It's like, without it, I'm not me. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can't stress that enough. -- Terry Crews
Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect. -- Brene Brown
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You are perfectly imperfect. -- Claudia Black
Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. -- Amos Oz
The imperfect is our paradise. -- Wallace Stevens
Compromise is an imperfect act. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm vain because I'm imperfect. -- Pete Doherty
How imperfect is all our knowledge! -- John Donne
You can root for someone who's imperfect. -- Heidi Ewing
All general judgments are loose and imperfect -- Michel de Montaigne
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect. -- Laozi
Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are. -- Chuck Hagel
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. -- Anais Nin
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. -- William Howard Taft
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature. -- Lord Chesterfield
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. -- Edward Gibbon
It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us. -- Paulo Coelho
But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends. -- Ted Dekker
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing. -- Ben Jonson
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world. -- Ellis Peters
There is always a but in this imperfect world. -- Anne Bronte
I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect. -- Ron Paul
Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human. -- Sarah Dessen
I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace, -- Mark Sanford
Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. -- Selwyn Hughes
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. -- Haruki Murakami
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. -- William Howard Taft
We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves. -- Randy Bachman
We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. -- Barack Obama
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. -- John Ruskin
God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master. -- Laurence Overmire
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science. -- Patch Adams
Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world. -- Richard Rohr
Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan. -- Tony Robbins
People are imperfect, but that doesn't mean they spoil like milk. -- Veronica Rossi
Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic. -- Amit Kalantri
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep. -- Benjamin Rush
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements. -- Maria Montessori
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. -- Cynthia Heimel
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people. -- Russell M. Nelson
All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. -- Haruki Murakami
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. -- Rebecca West
I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. -- David S. Goyer
Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird. -- Rumi
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. -- William James
We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries. -- Richard Holbrooke
There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved? -- Tessa Dare
All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. -- John Edgar Park
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. -- Oscar Wilde
If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been. -- Benito Perez Galdos
I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect. -- Lena Horne
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. -- Oscar Wilde
I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way. -- James Weston
There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it. -- Dana Cowin
God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will. -- Elizabeth George
Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are! -- Nnedi Okorafor

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