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"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
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"Do you generally feel uncomfortable around people whom you perceive to be perfect? Is there really such a thing as the perfect person? Of course not! Our flaws are often what differentiates us from each other, and no person is perfect."
"There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect."
"No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy."
"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey."
"The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?"
"It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil."
"In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no room for imagination. There is no ability to visualize a concept. Perfection is limited by its own nature, which in short, is zero."
"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."
"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty."
"No text, being human creation, is free from flaws " it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones."
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"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."
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