"I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us."
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"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."
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"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
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"To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality."
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"Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness."
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"It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things."
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"The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections."
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"Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life."
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"Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency."
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"Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind."
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"The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections."
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"When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning."
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"The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!"
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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
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"It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
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"It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections."
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"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."
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"We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections."
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"The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection."
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"I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life."
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