Imperfection Quotes - Page 22

• We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Love Yourself, Things In Life

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• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

  Joseph Priestley

  Knowledge, Discovery, Ideas

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.372

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• Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Happiness, Letting Go, Acceptance

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Weakness, Reputation

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Men

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

  Donald Miller

  Grace, Sticks, Accepting

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Kids, Literature

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• I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.

  Guy Berryman

  Believe, Giving, Quality

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• I'll always stand by the first [Batman]. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

  Michael Keaton

  People, Firsts, Stills

  "Michael Keaton Endorses Chris Nolan's Batman Flicks, Looks Forward To 'Dark Knight'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. January 21, 2008.

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• She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

  Cassandra Clare

  War, Cutting, Maps

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

  Edward Weston

  Home, Extraordinary Beauty, Curves

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• No matter who you are, how much money you make, or what kind of clothes you are wearing, CrossFit will force you to come face-to-face with your imperfections

  Julie Foucher

  Clothes, Crossfit, Matter

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• I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

  Tibor Kalman

  Insanity, Flying, Attention

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• To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Reality

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Civilization, Majority

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.

  Marcel Proust

  Spiritual, Thinking, Animal

  Marcel Proust (2016). “TIME REGAINED (Modern Classics Series): Metaphysical Novel - Coming to a Full Circle (In Search of Lost Time)”, p.296, e-artnow

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• And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting - the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. And when the writer sends a dart of the true word, it hurts. But it goes with love. This is what Mann called "erotic irony," the love for that which you are killing with your cruel, analytical word.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hurt, Writing, Perfect

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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• Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

  Danny Huston

  Character, Acting, Looks

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• To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Brother, Imperfect, Treats

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• If someone comes in without having been on a spiritual path for long, he or she still will understand what is happening to them in their human lives, what is happening through the evolution, how their humanness is playing such an important role at this time, and where they are in their lives with their inner feelings. It actually gives them a support system, a base from which they can start to evolve naturally within themselves through the understanding of our humanness, of our imperfection.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Spiritual, Humanness Is, Support Systems

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Perfection, Littles, Rooms

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• Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Silence, Virtue

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• Are imperfections is which make we grate.

  Craig Benzine

  Grate

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• God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled-to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery. I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing-that the light is everything-that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.

  Mary Oliver

  Believe, White, Fire

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.102, Beacon Press

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