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61 " Through my seeking of what is beyond beautiful, of what is intriguing, of what is free from all imperfections and wrongs, I realise my soul is not from here. I belong to a different place, from a different world, a different existence. "
― Khadija Rupa
62 " It's not your imperfections that make you attractive,it's your honesty about them that does. "
63 " It is through our imperfections that our true beauty shines through. "
― Cheryl L. Ilov , Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond
64 " Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths. "
― Toni Sorenson
65 " Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human. "
― Clyde DeSouza , Maya
66 " The imperfections of religions can only be understood by their unfollowers, not followers. "
― M.F. Moonzajer , LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
67 " No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show. "
68 " Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they see themselves fall into them, thinking themselves to have been saints already; and thus they become angry and impatient with themselves, which is another imperfection. Often they beseech God, with great yearnings, that He will take from them their imperfections and faults, but they do this that they may find themselves at peace, and may not be troubled by them, rather than for God's sake; not realizing that, if He should take their imperfections from them, they would probably become prouder and more presumptuous still. They dislike praising others and love to be praised themselves; sometimes they seek out such praise. Herein they are like the foolish virgins, who, when their lamps could not be lit, sought oil from others. "
― John of the Cross , Dark Night of the Soul
69 " As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my intent is to treat of the imperfections that have to be purged by means of the dark night - spiritual persons have numerous imperfections, many of which can be called spiritual lust, not because the lust is spiritual but because it proceeds from spiritual things. It happens frequently that in a person's spiritual exercises themselves, without the person being able to avoid it, impure movements will be experienced in the sensory part of the soul, and even sometimes when the spirit is deep in prayer or when receiving the sacraments of Penance or the Eucharist. These impure feelings arise from any of three causes outside one's control. First, they often proceed from the pleasure human nature finds in spiritual exercises. Since both the spiritual and the sensory part of the soul receive gratification from that refreshment, each part experiences delight according to its own nature and properties. The spirit, the superior part of the soul, experiences renewal and satisfaction in God; and the sense, the lower part, feels sensory gratification and delight because it is ignorant of how to get anything else, and hence takes whatever is nearest, which is the impure sensory satisfaction. It may happen that while a soul is with God in deep spiritual prayer, it will conversely passively experience sensual rebellions, movements, and acts in the senses, not without its own great displeasure. This frequently happens at the time of Communion. Since the soul receives joy and gladness in this act of love - for the Lord grants the grace and gives himself for this reason - the sensory part also takes its share, as we said, according to its mode. Since, after all, these two parts form one individual, each one usually shares according to its mode in what the other receives. As the Philosopher says: Whatever is received, is received according to the mode of the receiver. Because in the initial stages of the spiritual life, and even more advanced ones, the sensory part of the soul is imperfect, God's spirit is frequently received in this sensory part with this same imperfection. Once the sensory part is reformed through the purgation of the dark night, it no longer has these infirmities. Then the spiritual part of the soul, rather than the sensory part, receives God's Spirit, and the soul thus receives everything according to the mode of the Spirit. "
70 " Life will never be perfect, so we must learn how to make the imperfections work for us. "
― LinDee Rochelle , Blast From Your Past!Rock & Roll Radio Djs: The First Five Years 1954 1959
71 " It's the imperfections that make everything perfect. "
72 " When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another. "
― Salman Rushdie
73 " Only LEFT and RIGHT hand can hold each other and walk together...Only RIGHTs are enough to say bye.Nobody is perfect in the world, if you Love the perfection of his/her imperfections then LOVE exists. "
― Anuj Tiwari , Journey Of Two Hearts! -will be cherished forever
74 " Being authentic begins with unconditional self acceptance - imperfections and all. "
― Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
75 " The more we accept the imperfections of life, the more perfect life seems to become. "
― Russell Kyle , Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life
76 " I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, maturity and craftsmanship critics are looking for, and too little of the glorious imperfections which teeter and fall off the best minds. The men who have been in this war deserve some sort of trembling melody rendered without embarrassment or regret. I’ll watch for that book. "
― J.D. Salinger
77 " he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy. "
― Muhammad Iqbal
78 " Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist. "
― Baruch Spinoza
79 " No one is perfect. Sometimes, it is the imperfections that make us more alive than those around us. It’s the happiness of truly breathing and living in freedom of ourselves. Even though we may look broken to the world, there is always someone who sees us as we truly are, and helps us to create our whole being. "
― Jennifer Megan Varnadore
80 " This is my gift to you, this story that is also a song, these words that are a part of Fokir. Such flaws as there are in my rendition of it I do not regret, for perhaps they will prevent me from fading from sight, as a good translator should. For once, I shall be glad if my imperfections render me visible. "
― Amitav Ghosh , The Hungry Tide