Imperfect Quotes
47 quotes
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
"To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)"
"Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure."
"The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations."
"There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed."
"YOU ARE JUSTYou are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The Weight of One Feather"Given.Many fear deathBecause they alreadyFeel ridden with sin,But no man on this earthIs filled with only white lightWithin.Have more faithIn our Maker,For our souls and mindsWere created by Him.Just remember that,When your deedsAre measuredBy the scale – The good sideMust outweighThe bad,And your heartMust be as lightAs a featherTo win."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete"
Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
"I was moving around with my imperfect, broken pieces until you came across and stitched my flaws with your words."
"...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent..."
"Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days"
Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
"...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...."
Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
"...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces..."
"The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air..."
Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
"You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other’s humanness. None of us is perfect."
Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
"Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills."
"Perfection is born of imperfection."
"Every political mean is imperfect."
"For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another."
"Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns."
"Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs."
"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it’s a little closer to being perfect."
"This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator – that is what I once thought the world."
"Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate."
"It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!"
"As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect"
"Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive."
"In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"I'm not perfect, I'm beautifully imperfect"
"We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one is imperfect, except the One perfect lamb who was crucified for our sins. He was the scapegoat. He was the rejected One."
Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with God's Best
"Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws"
"It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character."
"I saw you before. All your flaws, your imperfections. Your body’s going to a lot of trouble to hide something, something inside of you. It must be very precious."
"I have no flaws, I'm perfect at being imperfect."
"Imperfections don’t make something ugly."
"God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will."
"Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome."
"When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere."
"Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete."
"The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies."
"I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ..."
"Being imperfect, makes you perfect."
"I do think imperfection is underrated"
"I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls."
"You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life lived."