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\nHere\u2019s a selection of my favorite quotes on imperfection.
\n“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.” – Winston Churchill
\n“Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.” – Chinese Proverb
\n\u201cHave no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.\u201d –\u00a0 Salvador Dal\u00ed
\n“To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
\n“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.” – Robert H. Schuller
\n“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.” – Henry Van Dyke
\n“Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.” – Thomas Carlyle
\n\u201cPrimary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.\u201d – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
\n\u201cNothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.\u201d – Daphne Delacroix
\n“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.” – Conrad Hall
\n“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they\u2019re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker
\n“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.\u201d – Francis Bacon Sr.
\n“Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.” – Thomas de Quincey
\n“Perfection itself is imperfection.” – Vladimir Horowitz
\n“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.” – Alden Nowlan
\n“Someone will always be prettier. Someone will always be smarter. Someone will always be younger. But they will never be you.” – Anonymous
\n“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen
\n“We learn as much by others’ failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.” – Magdeleine Sable
\n“Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.” – Michelle Burford
\n“Usefulness is not impaired by imperfection. You can still drink from a chipped cup.” – Greta K. Nagel
\n“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” – Confucius
\n“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
\n“The word ‘Imperfect’ actually spells ‘I’m perfect’ because everyone is perfect in their own imperfect ways.” – Anonymous
\n“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.” – Saint Augustine
\n“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi
\n“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen
\n“The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ” –\u00a0 Rumi
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