A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.
— Michael Bassey JohnsonAll great works start with mistake. Ain’t no exception in this fact.
— Sandra NewmanThere is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.
— James SalterThe masculine ideal of perfection creates a hyper-sensitivity to any nuance of imperfection. Any man who commits his life to the perfectionistic ideal of masculinity is going to feel like a failure. The people around him will feel abused and oppressed by him. The only way to do things is his way, the right way, the ideal way. Every man who succeeds at this game will wind up in the same place: Alone in his victory. At the top of the pyramid there’s no room for anyone else.
— Mary Crocker CookTo be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.
— Criss JamiTo accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
— Dejan StojanovicEmbrace your imperfections.Fancy your flaws.Flaunt your blemishes.Adore your birthmarks.Laugh off glitches.Discuss your setbacks.Don’t call your mistakes ‘Regrets’Call them ‘Lessons.
— Jasleen Kaur GumberYou have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.
— Kiera CassThe idea of practicing love is deeply appealing to me, because built right in is an acceptance of imperfection. There is an acknowledgment to myself that I am going to mess this up, an understanding that there is room to grow. Each of my failures just affirms the truth that we are all starting over and rising again.
— Anna WhiteThere is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
— Conrad Hall