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Imperfect Quotes (page 10)

When the heavens are obscured to us, and nothing noble or heroic appears, but we are oppressed by imperfection and shortcoming on all hands, we are apt to suck our thumbs and decry our fates. As if nothing were to be done in cloudy weather, or, if heaven were not accessible by the upper road, men would not find out a lower... There are two ways to victory, - to strive bravely, or to yield. How much pain the last will save we have not yet learned. Henry David Thoreau
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. Louise Erdrich
Life is full of many unpredictable changes... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways Oprah Winfrey
If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally, I feel that encouraging. Do you know what I'm getting at? Haruki Murakami
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself...do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. Saint Francis de Sales
Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves us, not a false imaging, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, - loves, not the man that we are, but the angel we may be. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wallace Stevens quote: "The imperfect is our paradise."
The imperfect is our paradise. Wallace Stevens
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love. Thomas Jefferson
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. Michael Pollan
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. Jane Austen
I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them Chinua Achebe
and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one. L. M. Montgomery
Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion. E. O. Wilson
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods. Emile M. Cioran
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect..."
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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