C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms."
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Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men."
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"I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength"
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"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."
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"I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education."
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"You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself"
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"Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan."
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"We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect."
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"Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect."
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"Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect."
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"Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging."
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"So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly."
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"It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others."
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"Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life."
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"A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect."
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"I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?"
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"How imperfect is all our knowledge!"
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"Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person."
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"The imperfect is our paradise."
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"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
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"...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you."
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"But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end."
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