{"quotes":[{"text":"It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.  Dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["capacity","enjoyment","fool","happiness","imperfections","philosophy","satisfaction","socrates"],"id":2294,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"Observe your imperfections. Love them. Then move through them.","author":"Matthew Donnelly","tags":["imperfections","improvement","love","observation","observe"],"id":22197,"author_id":"Matthew+Donnelly"},{"text":"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.","author":"T. Scott McLeod","tags":["healing","healing-in-the-hurting-places","healing-the-emotional-self","imperfections","perfection"],"id":30843,"author_id":"T.+Scott+McLeod"},{"text":"God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["accepting-yourself","cause","destiny","discovering-your-calling","faith-in-god","flaws","greater-purpose","imperfections","loving-yourself","perfection","positive-thinking","strength","trust","weakness"],"id":34972,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?","author":"Artemus Withers","tags":["imperfections","inspirational","life-lessons"],"id":35439,"author_id":"Artemus+Withers"},{"text":"Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to.","author":"George Sand","tags":["faults","gender","imperfections","inequality","men","mysogyny","submission","violence","women"],"id":38894,"author_id":"George+Sand"},{"text":"...Unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...","author":"Maquita Donyel Irvin","tags":["art","artist","be-present","beautiful-mind","beautiful-women","black-women","black-women-writers","black-writers","bloom","christian-writers","coincidence","complete","faith","faith-in-god","flower","growth","hope","imperfect","imperfections","jesus","love","love-poems","love","love-stories","lovely","no-coincidences","perfectly-imperfect","poems","purposeful-living","rare","relationship","relationships","single","single-woman","stories-of-a-polished-pistil","trust","wanderer","wanderlust","whole","women-writers"],"id":65057,"author_id":"Maquita+Donyel+Irvin"},{"text":"Learning to be a Life- Giving Mom without regrets requires embracing the season you are in. You have to let go of the past and live in the present as you lay hold of the future. At each transition you will likely shed some tears as you realize that you can’t go back and re-live the past. You must move forward, facing the imperfections of your present, hoping for the future.","author":"Sue Detweiler","tags":["future","hope","imperfections","letting-go","letting-go-of-the-past","live-in-the-moment","mom","seasons","seasons-of-life","tears","transition","transitions-in-life"],"id":99527,"author_id":"Sue+Detweiler"},{"text":"Our raw imperfections make us real and make us human but they don't make us.","author":"Jay McLean","tags":["human","imperfections"],"id":100359,"author_id":"Jay+McLean"},{"text":"...It's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.","author":"Sherri Rifkin","tags":["content","growing-up","imperfections","love","maturing","moving-on","real","relationship","relationships"],"id":103672,"author_id":"Sherri+Rifkin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}