"Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person."
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"The imperfect is our paradise."
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
"...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you."
"But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end."
"Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation."
"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
"I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all."
"Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance."
"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."
"Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought."
"[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it."
"We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves."
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
"Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted."
"I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect."
"It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us."
"If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect."
"Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this.""
"I'm imperfect. There are things in time that will bother me, but I don't dwell on them. It's another thing to dwell on it your whole day and let it bother you."