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Imperfection Quotes
"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
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"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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"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Imperfection contains more information than perfection."
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"Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can."
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"There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect."
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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."
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"If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case."
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"There is a crack in everything God has made."
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"I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest."
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"There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness."
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"It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil."
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"Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections."
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"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty."
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"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."
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"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."
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