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imperfect QUOTES

21 " [H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a woman dissolving into violence, desperately weakening everything he tried to do. For how could learning and poetry be defended when it produced such dreadful results and was advanced by such imperfect creatures? At least Julien did not see the desperate fate of the ruined lover as a nineteenth-century novelist or a poet might have done, recasting the tale to create some appealing romantic hero, dashed to pieces against the unyielding society that produced him. Rather, his initial opinion -- held almost to the last -- was of Olivier as a failure, ruined by a terible weakness. "

― Iain Pears , The Dream of Scipio

22 " My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth. "

― John Piper , Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again?

23 " We all go through hard times in life. It’s a part of being alive and it's the reality we all have to deal with. There are times we forget our value as a person because we are so blinded with these thoughts of loneliness, emptiness and ego. Somewhere along the road we become numbed with all the frustrations and dissatisfaction. But life itself isn't always about darkness and sadness, Life is also filled with colors and that makes it beautiful. Along this path of darkness there's always light waiting to be seen by our daunted hearts. Our heart is gifted to see this light. It may be hiding behind those circumstances that we encounter; in a stranger we just met at an unexpected place; a family who has been always there but you just ignored because of your imperfect relationship with them; it might be a long time friend you have or a friend you just met. Open your heart and you will see how blessed you are to have them all in your life. Sometimes they are the light that shines your path in some dark phases of life. Don't lose hope "

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24 " When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge. "

― Milton H. Erickson

25 " God always have a perfect way for every imperfect situations. "

26 " Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live. "

27 " He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought " Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection. "

28 " A human being basically could not live alone. I had always thought of one’s soul as an imperfect creature; God had created it that way to allow the need to exist –the need to have relationships with other people in order to always run after the one obsession that had humanity seeking it on regular basis –perfection. Whether that relationship was between family members, friends, co-workers or even a romantic relationship, it was always people’s way to achieve flawlessness since they couldn’t accomplish it on their own. "

― , Rosie

29 " As hard as we strive, man remains a perfect imperfect being. "

30 " Maybe that was what being together with someone really meant. It meant seeing past the idealization you had of them, embracing their flaws and fears, helping them to overcome them, waiting for them if they were not ready. Maybe being in love didn’t mean finding the perfect person, it meant it was worth sticking with an imperfect one. "

― Gaia B. Amman , Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time (The Italian Saga, #4)

31 " Perfect love happens not when you're ready but when you least expect, at the most imperfect moment under unpredictable circumstances! Expect Not, Trust Existence! "

32 " Perfect Love happens at the most imperfect moments! "

33 " You are a drop of perfect in an imperfect world. and all I need, is a taste "

― pleasefindthis , I Wrote This For You (I Wrote This For You #4)

34 " To say her goodbye …!!I knew there was somethingIn wink of your smile In touch of your voiceWith the hurt of good bye Precious moments are not lasting long Controlling my lifeAnd I don’t know whyI won’t see her anymoreFor long …So much to say .. But words are missing & time is running To say her goodbyeThe beauty of imperfect Speechless moment Was not enough for silent tears To way back in this lifeAll my memories Keeps you near brings me far From home …I ll remember ..The silent whisper To say her goodbye..Waving hand to sky … And a kiss to winds I’ll remember..!!Rhitwik "

35 " Love is not perfection. Love is when two imperfect people choose not to give up on each other. "

― Geneva Lee , Crown Me (Royals Saga, #3)

36 " The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

37 " Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection. "

― Donald Rumsfeld , Known and Unknown

38 " Funny, I don't particularly care for either " laws" or " order" . Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results. "

39 " [Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. "

― Michael Pollan , In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

40 " How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening. He had never before seen a woman’s lips and teeth which forced upon his mind with such persistent iteration the old Elizabethan simile of roses filled with snow.
Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no — they were not perfect. And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity. "

― Thomas Hardy , Tess of the D'Urbervilles