Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
— Marilyn Monroe
Staggering Imperfection quotations
It's okay not to be perfect. Your imperfections are what make you YOU. And at the end of the day, people like real people, flaws and all. At least I do.

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. The power of vulnerability.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.
Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes;
for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature.
It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.

I accept that today may be imperfect.
.. I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want.
If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.
Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Don't get upset with your imperfections.
It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.
People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer.
This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you.
A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.
Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely.
Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.