Imperfection Quotes - Page 19

• How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.

  Stephenie Meyer

  People, Breaking Dawn

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Littles, Nostalgia

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• It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Criticism, Looks, Gains

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• All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Imperfect World, Norwegian Wood, Humans

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• History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Documentation, Certainty

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.59, Random House

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• You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.” “Was?” she asked. “I don't have this flaw any longer?” “No, you don't.” “Pray tell,” she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?” He grinned. “You used to be English.

  Julie Garwood

  Praying, Flaws, Used

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• I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me, why I belong to them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Makeup, People, Damage

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

  Patricia Briggs

  Perfect, Who We Are, Small Parts

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• So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

  John Green

  Couple, Team, Missing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.107, Penguin

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Perfect, Imperfect, Oblivious

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• You're so convinced you'll disappoint people if you show them that you're not perfect. You don't realize you are perfect. Your imperfections are what make you perfect. They make you you. That's what people love. It's what I love too.

  Hilary Duff

  People, Perfect, Realizing

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• The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?

  Queen Latifah

  Unique, Reality, Special

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• What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)

  Julian Barnes

  Memories, Lying, Self

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• I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, that’s all I’m ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesn’t matter if you’re perfect. To me, you will be, and that’s all that counts. It’ll be that way always. Even years from now, when you’re old and withered, I’ll see you with my heart, not my eyes. That’s just the way it is when you love someone. The imperfections don’t exist. If you see them at all, you think they’re beautiful.

  Catherine Anderson

  Beautiful, Love You, Eye

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• While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

  David Hume

  Nature, Philosophy, Science

  David Hume (1759). “The Commonwealth, and the reigns of Charles II. and James II”, p.450

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• For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Science, Animal

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• Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Hate, Silence

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• Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

  Alice Walker

  Acceptance, Perfect, Worry

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.326, The New Press

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• The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation of God, who has not forgotten His divinity, that Christ can help us, in Him there is no imperfection.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Divinity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3095, Manonmani Publishers

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• Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Two, Space

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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• The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Biblical, Self

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• And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Adversity, May

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.15, University of Iowa Press

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• I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant... There is only beauty.

  Tessa Dare

  Lying, Eye, Mirrors

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• Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Friendship, Expression, Needs

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• There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wise, Atheist, Powerful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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