imperfection

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8689a84	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.	be-yourself beauty body-image comfortable happiness imperfection inspirational life rare success women	Steve Maraboli
8985214	The true genius shudders at incompleteness -- imperfection -- and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.	imperfection incompleteness shudder silence	Edgar Allan Poe
1c6156b	For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.	ancient flight flying human-race humanity imperfection inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring journey life life-and-living life-s-journey living living-life people perfect perfection the-journey truth two-wings wings wisdom wisdom-quotes	C. JoyBell C.
b186b38	Perfectly Imperfec	imperfection inspirational journey life motivational perfection relationships snowflakes	Steve Maraboli
d861934	If gold rusts, what then can iron do?	fallibility flaws gold imperfection inspirational iron rust	Geoffrey Chaucer
930b861	How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening. He had never before seen a woman's lips and teeth which forced upon his mind with such persistent iteration the old Elizabethan simile of roses filled with snow. Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no -- they were not perfect. And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.	imperfection love perfection	Thomas Hardy
bd2be9a	It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.	dissonance dysmorphia fighting-yourself imperfection loneliness struggling transgender	David Levithan
5e45643	The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.	imperfection	Jhumpa Lahiri
a85f51e	Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.	imperfection ordinary-people	Haruki Murakami
1f710f3	Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.	elric-of-melnibone eternal-champion imperfection opposites paradox peace philosophers soothsayers	Michael Moorcock
f9bcc3b	Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.	creative creativity imagination imperfect imperfection inspiration	Jhumpa Lahiri
4b73313	"Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.	death imperfection life questions utopia	T.S. Eliot
dda0759	What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.	forgiveness grace humanity imperfection wisdom	Barbara Kingsolver
8380434	But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.	disaster error follow hierarchy human imperfection leadership mistakes	Frank Herbert
fcec2b4	Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that.	imperfection love	Susan Cooper

8689a84

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.

be-yourself beauty body-image comfortable happiness imperfection inspirational life rare success women

Steve Maraboli

8985214

The true genius shudders at incompleteness -- imperfection -- and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

imperfection incompleteness shudder silence

Edgar Allan Poe

1c6156b

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.

ancient flight flying human-race humanity imperfection inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring journey life life-and-living life-s-journey living living-life people perfect perfection the-journey truth two-wings wings wisdom wisdom-quotes

C. JoyBell C.

b186b38

Perfectly Imperfec

imperfection inspirational journey life motivational perfection relationships snowflakes

Steve Maraboli

d861934

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

fallibility flaws gold imperfection inspirational iron rust

Geoffrey Chaucer

930b861

How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening. He had never before seen a woman's lips and teeth which forced upon his mind with such persistent iteration the old Elizabethan simile of roses filled with snow. Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no -- they were not perfect. And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

imperfection love perfection

Thomas Hardy

bd2be9a

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.

dissonance dysmorphia fighting-yourself imperfection loneliness struggling transgender

David Levithan

5e45643

The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

imperfection

Jhumpa Lahiri

a85f51e

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

imperfection ordinary-people

Haruki Murakami

1f710f3

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

elric-of-melnibone eternal-champion imperfection opposites paradox peace philosophers soothsayers

Michael Moorcock

f9bcc3b

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

creative creativity imagination imperfect imperfection inspiration

Jhumpa Lahiri

4b73313

"Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.

death imperfection life questions utopia

T.S. Eliot

dda0759

What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.

forgiveness grace humanity imperfection wisdom

Barbara Kingsolver

8380434

But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.

disaster error follow hierarchy human imperfection leadership mistakes

Frank Herbert

fcec2b4

Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that.

imperfection love

Susan Cooper