flaws

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09887f1	I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.	integrity self-determination independence women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment image realism gender flaws	Charlotte Brontë
5c65487	I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.	integrity men self-determination independence romance women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment love ideal-woman image realism gender flaws	Charlotte Brontë
06717ca	We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.	individuality inspirational flaws	Sarah Vowell
1e73467	I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding-- certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.	temper pride-and-prejudice mr-darcy flaws	Jane Austen
c0cd1f7	"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."	integrity self-determination independence women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment ideal-woman image realism gender flaws	Charlotte Brontë
5d0b9cd	Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.	inspirational Æsthetics flaws	Hiromu Arakawa
56e77fb	Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework. 'm listening. Annabeth: I mean, the West represents a lot of the best things mankind ever did--that's why the fire is still burning. That's why OlympusIs still around. But sometimes you just see the bad stuff, you know? And you start thinking the way Luke does: 'If I could tear this all down, i would do it better.'. Don't you ever feel that way? Like YOU could do a better job I'd you ran the world? Percy:Um...no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare. Annabeth: then you're lucky. Hubris isn't your fatal flaw. Percy: what is? Annabeth: I don't know, Percy, but every hero has one. If you don't find it and learn to control it...well, they don't call it 'fatal' for nothing. Percy(thinking to himself): I thought about that. It didn't exactly cheer me up.	fatality hubris percy-jackson the-sea-of-the-monsters percy-jackson-and-the-olympians rick-riordan flaws	Rick Riordan
23b8546	Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.	crippled flaws	Holly Black
d861934	If gold rusts, what then can iron do?	inspirational rust imperfection gold iron fallibility flaws	Geoffrey Chaucer
ef62c9d	"You have many flaws, he announced... "But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison." "Was?" she asked. "I don't have this flaw any longer?" "No, you don't." "Pray tell," she muttered in exasperation, "what was this terrible flaw?" He grinned. "You used to be English."	flaws	Julie Garwood
19971f9	We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.	mankind perfection humanity character falliability frailty flaws	William Shakespeare
108a015	The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.	hatred marriage criticism loss relationships change heartbreak love change-for-worse emotional-turmoil hurtful i-miss-who-you-were missing-who-someone-was puppeteer heartless nothing strangers turmoil bullying scary failure flaws	Gillian Flynn
0737876	"It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause, we come here to get away from such things. As long as we are here, we can get by without hurting others or being hurt by them because we know that we are "deformed". That's what distinguishes us from the outside world: most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition. Just as Indians wear feathers on their heads to show what tribe they belong to, we wear our deformities in the open. And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another."	people truth outside-world precondition hurt lives flaws	Haruki Murakami
0af07f6	For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations.... Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.	success promise failure flaws	Alain de Botton
8a3294d	Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.' 'But should you wish yourself to be like him?' 'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.	individuality flaws	Anne Brontë
87e6f91	I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.	people flaws difficulties	Philip Roth
ea37cfb	And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.	love perfect flaws	Cecelia Ahern
607a587	These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers' faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings in all kinds, wherewith this ancient sect has honoured the world, shall immediately find, from the whole thread and tenor of them, that the ideas of the authors have been altogether conversant and taken up with the faults and blemishes, and oversights, and mistakes of other writers; and let the subject treated on be whatever it will, their imaginations are so entirely possessed and replete with the defects of other pens, that the very quintessence of what is bad does of necessity distil into their own, by which means the whole appears to be nothing else but an abstract of the criticisms themselves have made.	writing jackasses tails tubs pens critics flaws	Jonathan Swift
1cf49f9	I try to focus, but I can't. I know why I'm here, and then I don't know why I'm here. I understand, then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I'd done, and then I'm glad I did.	flaws	Cecelia Ahern
01e1e07	"Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect."	perfection life jade korean-quote perfection-seeking flaws	Alan Brennert
361451e	You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.	personality boundaries elves-and-pixies imaginary real-estate virtues-and-vices pains pleasures flaws	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

integrity self-determination independence women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment image realism gender flaws

Charlotte Brontë

5c65487

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

integrity men self-determination independence romance women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment love ideal-woman image realism gender flaws

Charlotte Brontë

06717ca

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

individuality inspirational flaws

Sarah Vowell

1e73467

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding-- certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

temper pride-and-prejudice mr-darcy flaws

Jane Austen

c0cd1f7

"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."

integrity self-determination independence women freedom self-awareness identity empowerment ideal-woman image realism gender flaws

Charlotte Brontë

5d0b9cd

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

inspirational Æsthetics flaws

Hiromu Arakawa

56e77fb

Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework. 'm listening. Annabeth: I mean, the West represents a lot of the best things mankind ever did--that's why the fire is still burning. That's why OlympusIs still around. But sometimes you just see the bad stuff, you know? And you start thinking the way Luke does: 'If I could tear this all down, i would do it better.'. Don't you ever feel that way? Like YOU could do a better job I'd you ran the world? Percy:Um...no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare. Annabeth: then you're lucky. Hubris isn't your fatal flaw. Percy: what is? Annabeth: I don't know, Percy, but every hero has one. If you don't find it and learn to control it...well, they don't call it 'fatal' for nothing. Percy(thinking to himself): I thought about that. It didn't exactly cheer me up.

fatality hubris percy-jackson the-sea-of-the-monsters percy-jackson-and-the-olympians rick-riordan flaws

Rick Riordan

23b8546

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

crippled flaws

Holly Black

d861934

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

inspirational rust imperfection gold iron fallibility flaws

Geoffrey Chaucer

ef62c9d

"You have many flaws, he announced... "But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison." "Was?" she asked. "I don't have this flaw any longer?" "No, you don't." "Pray tell," she muttered in exasperation, "what was this terrible flaw?" He grinned. "You used to be English."

flaws

Julie Garwood

19971f9

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

mankind perfection humanity character falliability frailty flaws

William Shakespeare

108a015

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.

hatred marriage criticism loss relationships change heartbreak love change-for-worse emotional-turmoil hurtful i-miss-who-you-were missing-who-someone-was puppeteer heartless nothing strangers turmoil bullying scary failure flaws

Gillian Flynn

0737876

"It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause, we come here to get away from such things. As long as we are here, we can get by without hurting others or being hurt by them because we know that we are "deformed". That's what distinguishes us from the outside world: most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition. Just as Indians wear feathers on their heads to show what tribe they belong to, we wear our deformities in the open. And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another."

people truth outside-world precondition hurt lives flaws

Haruki Murakami

0af07f6

For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations.... Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.

success promise failure flaws

Alain de Botton

8a3294d

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.' 'But should you wish yourself to be like him?' 'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.

individuality flaws

Anne Brontë

87e6f91

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.

people flaws difficulties

Philip Roth

ea37cfb

And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.

love perfect flaws

Cecelia Ahern

607a587

These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers' faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings in all kinds, wherewith this ancient sect has honoured the world, shall immediately find, from the whole thread and tenor of them, that the ideas of the authors have been altogether conversant and taken up with the faults and blemishes, and oversights, and mistakes of other writers; and let the subject treated on be whatever it will, their imaginations are so entirely possessed and replete with the defects of other pens, that the very quintessence of what is bad does of necessity distil into their own, by which means the whole appears to be nothing else but an abstract of the criticisms themselves have made.

writing jackasses tails tubs pens critics flaws

Jonathan Swift

1cf49f9

I try to focus, but I can't. I know why I'm here, and then I don't know why I'm here. I understand, then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I'd done, and then I'm glad I did.

flaws

Cecelia Ahern

01e1e07

"Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect."

perfection life jade korean-quote perfection-seeking flaws

Alan Brennert

361451e

You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.

personality boundaries elves-and-pixies imaginary real-estate virtues-and-vices pains pleasures flaws

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.