#imperfect

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #perfect #love

But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#love #pain #the-imperfect-lover #love

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. ↗

— Brené Brown

#imperfection #life #receiving #relationships #relationship

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#feel #images #imperfect #inadequate #look

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. ↗

— Richard Whately

#avoid #corrupted #danger #exchange #follow

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#comfort #condition #hope #imperfect #our

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#become #break #cycle #doing #embrace

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. ↗

— David Hume

#avidity #fly #greatest #imperfections #just

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. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#axis #brushed #clings #entirely #ever

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#dispose #fuller #gives #imperfections #learning