#perfections

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. ↗

— Amy Bloom

#body-image #imperfections #self-acceptance #beauty

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#change #constitution #imperfections #laws #progress

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imperfections #beauty

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#american #begin #convenient #critics #imperfections

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#beings #created #creator #dishonor #divine

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband. ↗

— Martha Quinn

#husband #hyper #imperfections #less #life

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #human-nature #imperfections #mistakes #perfect

I have faith in my imperfections! ↗

— Dana Delany

#i #imperfections

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting #courage #honesty #humble #humility

You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#healing-in-the-hurting-places #healing-the-emotional-self #imperfections #perfection #beauty