Imperfection Quotes

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

We do not want to be beginners (at prayer), but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners all of our lives. --Thomas Merton

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

When it comes to youI can’t help myselfI’ve never been thisattachedto someone’s flaws

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Cracks in our souls help us bear the overwhelming imperfections of the world. They're not our flaws. Kindness knows this.

Sometimes our inability to be Christlike happens because... we don't care. But sometimes it happens because we are naïve about our own hidden darkness.

When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies.

Perfection is a lie, and lying to others is explicable but lying to oneself is the highest form of deceit.

Self-love is not the process of ignoring your flaws. Self-love is expanding your awareness to include your flaws and your strengths.

Embrace your imperfections.Fancy your flaws.Flaunt your blemishes.Adore your birthmarks.Laugh off glitches.Discuss your setbacks.Don’t call your mistakes ‘Regrets’Call them ‘Lessons

Imperfection doesn’t disqualify you from helping others -- it makes you more qualified to give advice in the area you learned from.

Perfection is a faux. It’s a mask carved by our own poor esteem to hide who we really are and make others see what really isn’t us.

We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

I know, at the time it was an imperfect solution in an imperfect world.

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.

The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.

We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.

It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.

I'm a beautiful mess of contradiction, A chaotic display of imperfection.

It's not perfection that makes you beautiful, It's your imperfections

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

In order to discover your true self, you must first unconditionally fall in love with your imperfect life.

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.

Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

Though I am a lot of things, most importantly I am human.

His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow.

Heaven is inside us, ' Ida uttered in a rather loud whisper.

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

All great works start with mistake. Ain’t no exception in this fact.

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey

I wonder how two imperfect people can create perfect love.

Imperfection makes perfect

Your first step towards perfection is acknowledging your imperfections.

Why should I be perfect.. when I'm already imperfectly perfect. And that's what is unique and perfect about me.

I am THAT, I AM! Why should I be perfect.. when I'm already imperfectly perfect. And that's what is unique and perfect about me. I love that I am that I love that I am!

I do think imperfection is underrated

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

Perfection can be a mask for imperfection.