Best 149 quotes in «imperfect quotes» category

When shame is met with compassion and not received as confirmation of our guilt, we can begin to see how slant a lens it has had us looking through. That awareness lets us step back far enough to see that if we can let it go, we will see ourselves as clean where we once thought we were dirty. We will remember our innocence. We will see how our shame supported a system in which the perpetrators were protected and we bore the brunt of their offense — first in its actuality, then again in carrying their shame for it. If the method we chose to try to beat out shame was perfectionism, we can relax now, shake the burden off our shoulders, and give ourselves a chance to loosen up and make some errors. Hallelujah! Our freedom will not come from tireless effort and getting it all exactly right.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life lived.

You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant.

When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.

YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

Beauty is only skin deep.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?

[J.F] Kennedy's own accent was inconsistent. So people are inconsistent. And it always kind of irks me when people talk about inconsistent accents, because people are imperfect by nature. So in the end, what you do is, you do an inhabitation and not an imitation.

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.