Imperfect Things Quotes

• I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Interesting, Imperfection

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  Owen Feltham

  Change, Perfection, Way

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

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• It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Poetry, Joy

  "L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

  Richard Rohr

  Happy Life, Unhappy, Needs

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• If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Dream, Hurt, Regret

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• We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Past, Creating

  "33% of Adolescents Regret Their Tattoos, Study Finds" by Derek Beres, bigthink.com. April 11, 2017.

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• A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Imperfect, Rich, Upbringing

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• No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

  Tom Stoppard

  Matter, Free Press, Ifs

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

  Ben Jonson

  Light, Opinion, Vain

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.92, Manchester University Press

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• Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economics, Foresight, Prevision

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.312, Princeton University Press

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