imperfection

And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cogwheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves....On the other hand, if you will make a man of the working creature, you cannot make a tool. Let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to do anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once. Out come all his roughness; all his dullness, all his incapability; shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause: but out comes the whole majesty of him also, and we know the height of it only, when we see the clouds settling upon him.

I__l be blasted_, he said, __f I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I__l write, from this day forward, to please myself

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.

One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.

Perfection is inexistent. It is the short-lived joy of muddling in the dips of a superficial life in a bid to bury who we really are.

No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made.

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.

No matter how cleverly we disguise our anxieties they bear witness to the imperfect nature of the human heart. To be is to become. To become is not to be. We are a work-in-progress, incomplete, imperfect, unrealised, and by virtue of temporal actions, temporary - a verb more than a noun, an inner quest and an outward odyssey framed by metaphors, like Escher's "Print Gallery"; we make the endless journey round the pictures, retracing our steps in forgetfulness, avoiding but mindful of the space where there are no pictures, where there is no gallery, where there is nothing at all. And like flies in a fly bottle, trapped by a failure of vision, we go round and round and round the moebius loop of a print gallery of our own making, a picture inside a picture inside a picture, forever.

In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect

It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!

She hasn__ got it all figured out...far from it, in fact.But she loves God and she loves to dance_and she__ her own __etter Half.__he bravest woman I know?She is the reason I do what I do.She is The Single Woman.She__ me_and she__ you.

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

Either nobody's perfect,or everyone is.