71 Imperfection Quotes To Remind You You're Perfect As You Are
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Imperfection is as great a natural truth as mortality.
Every minuscule element of this perfectly imperfect existence thrives towards the manifestation of perfection, that is perpetually unattainable. Hence, humankind sustains until the end.
The word perfection has an undertone of subjectivity. While in a literal sense nothing is perfect, in the truest essence perfection lies in the imperfection of it all.
That way, everything is perfect, just the way it is, perfectly imperfect. Perfect imperfection is seeing the beauty in something that others miss, this makes it perfect as "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
You do not need to "deal with" your imperfections, only to look at them in a new light and see that they make you perfect.
So, look beyond the imperfections and enjoy the beauty of this creation.
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The Most Beautiful Imperfection Quotes
These love and imperfection quotes will make you love yourself the way you are as a person. You will find some short imperfection quotes for girls and boys to make them be the people that they truly are.
1. "No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey."
- Sweety Shinde, 'Arjun: Without A Doubt'.
2. "The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive."
- Jhumpa Lahiri, 'In Other Words'.
3. "Beauty is the shadow of imperfection."
- Simon Van Booy, 'Everything Beautiful Began After'.
4. "Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections."
- Daphne Delacroix.
5. "She was completely whole and yet never fully complete."
- Maquita Donyel Irvin, 'Stories Of A Polished Pistil: Lace And Ruffles'.
6. "I'm not looking for the perfect man. I'm looking for the man whose imperfections I can put up with."
- Devon Ashley.
7. "Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart."
- Brene Brown, 'The Gifts Of Imperfection'.
8. "Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be lived. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically lived."
- Mandy Hale, 'The Single Woman: Life, Love, And A Dash Of Sass'.
9. "Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection."
- Haruki Murakami, 'Sputnik Sweetheart'.
10. "To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human."
- Louise Erdrich, 'The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse'.
11. "God knows I'm not perfect, either."
- Hideaki Anno, 'Groundwork Of Evangelion Volume One'.
12. "Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection."
- Toba Beta, 'Master Of Stupidity'.
13. "Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty."
-Amit Ray, 'World Peace: The Voice Of A Mountain Bird'.
14. "To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality."
- John Ruskin, 'The Stones Of Venice'.
15. "The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said."
- Edgar Allan Poe, 'Marginalia'.
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16. "There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."
- Steve Maraboli, 'Unapologetically You: Reflections On Life And The Human Experience'.
17. "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
- Salvador Dali.
18. "Imperfection is a form of freedom."
- Anh Ngo.
19. "My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents."
- Mahatma Gandhi.
20. "I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life."
- Kerry Washington.
21. "This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."
- Saint Augustine.
22. "There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."
- Conrad Hall.
23. "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
- Anna Quindlen.
24. "I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting."
- Marc Jacobs.
25. "Imperfection is the greatness of man."
- Ernst Fischer.
26. "I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character."
- Hector Tobar.
27. "Imperfection is important."
- Eric Cantona.
28. "I think that’s the most beautiful thing about being confident – just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks."
- Joanna Krupa.
29. "Perfection is found in accepting your imperfections."
- Bridgett Devoue.
30. "Your imperfections are marks of authenticity and that is the beauty of you."
- Isaac Fowler.
31. "Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order."
- Anne Wilson Schaef.
32. "People call these things imperfections, but they’re not, that’s the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds."
- 'Good Will Hunting'.
33. "I cling to my imperfection as the very essence of my being."
- Anatole France.
34. "This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don’t be afraid of that."
- Dylan O’Brien.
35. "You are just human. Being imperfect does not make you any less."
- Kartika Atmadja.
36. "You were born to be real not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else’s life."
- Ralph Marston.
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37. "At some point, I'm just of the mind that no art is perfect, and it shouldn't be perfect."
- Colman Domingo.
38. "Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection."
- Elizabeth Banks.
39. "But drama is about imperfection."
- Hugh Laurie.
40. "God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
- William Ellery Channing.
41. "Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda."
- Gustav Heinemann.
42. "If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important."
- Eric Cantona.
43. "Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair."
- Tokugawa Ieyasu.
44. "Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end."
- Annie Besant.
45. "All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
- Wisława Szymborska.
46. "Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state."
- Thomas de Quincey.
47. "It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
- Soren Kierkegaard.
48. "Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
- Thomas Carlyle.
Beauty In Imperfection Quotes
These love imperfection quotes will make you embrace the beauty in you.
49. "The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details."
- Shaun Tan.
50. "Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God."
- Annie Besant.
51. "As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."
- Ernst Fischer.
52. "On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
- Walter Salles.
53. "The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."
- Joseph Addison.
54. "The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance."
- Jane Austen.
55. "Imperfection is fine."
- Anna Wintour.
56. "A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat."
- David D. Burns.
57. "I find beauty in imperfection."
- Rachel Morrison.
58. "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
- Thomas Aquinas.
59. "Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
- Ben Okri.
60. "I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation."
- Matt Groening.
Perfection In Imperfection Quotes
Be it the imperfection quotes from Marilyn Monroe or the life imperfection quotes from these famous people, they'll make you realize the beauty in imperfection.
61. "Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results."
- Jake Sullivan.
62. "Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection."
63. "It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others."
- Jeff Koons.
64. "Imperfection is perfection."
- Flume.
65. "Perfection itself is imperfection."
- Vladimir Horowitz.
66. "Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty."
- Marc Jacobs.
67. "There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection."
- James Salter.
68. "There is beauty and humility in imperfection."
- Guillermo del Toro.
69. "There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."
- Conrad Hall.
70. "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
- Marilyn Monroe.
71. "Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
- W. Somerset Maugham.
72. "Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together."
- Brené Brown.
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