#imperfection

There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and bumped into an elderly woman. I quickly apologized and she replied, "Well, hold on to something, stupid." There it is. That's it. That's it in a nutshell. I don't want to sound negative, but I think every fetus should be shown a film of that incident, maybe projected up on the uterine wall, and then asked if it wants to come out. I am a strong believer in a woman's right to choose, but I also think that in the last trimester, the kid should be given every opportunity to back out. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#birth #choice #flaw #humanity #imperfection

Perfection itself is imperfection. ↗

— Vladimir Horowitz

#itself #perfection

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#against #argue #argument #credible #criticise

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#considering #imperfections #lose #own #your

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. ↗

— Walter Salles

#coming #contrary #film #i #imperfection

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conceal #hear #imperfections #men #other

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#easier #imperfection #served #small #tolerate

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life. ↗

— John Ruskin

#life #life

Learning to pay attention to how your body feels can offer you rich guidance about your choices and direction in life. ↗

— Lynn A. Robinson

#divine-intuition #intuition #manifestation #religion #spirituality-of-imperfection

Earth life is giant field day where we willingly choose the limitation of racing with both feet in a potato sack, or sometimes we join up with another and agree to the limitation of racing as a team where each person has one leg tied to the leg of the other....Agreeing to run a race with limitations or live a life with limitations doesn't mean you're slow, clumsy, or unenlightened. It just means you're showing up on field day, participating, and if you're really good, you try your best despite the obstacles. ↗

— Kaya McLaren

#life #life