21 quotes
“Remember that imperfection is part of the shared human experience and deserves compassion not criticism”
— Kristen Neff
“True beauty is born of the imperfect”
— Soetsu Yanagi
“Nothing lasts nothing is finished and nothing is perfect”
— Wabi Sabi Proverb
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
— William Shakespeare
“Radical compassion begins with accepting our own imperfection and the imperfection of life itself”
— Tara Brach
“And now that you dont have to be perfect you can be good”
— John Steinbeck
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
— Sam Keen
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made”
— Immanuel Kant
“In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they are still beautiful.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.”
— Hasidic Proverb
“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
— Voltaire
“If we wait for the moment when everything absolutely everything is ready we shall never begin.”
— Ivan Turgenev
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“And now that you dont have to be perfect in your family you can be good.”
“The artist exists because the world is not perfect”
— Andrei Tarkovsky
“Like all the best families we have our share of eccentricities of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
— Queen Elizabeth II
“A beautiful thing is never perfect it is simply itself in its natural simplicity”
— Publilius Syrus
“Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”
— Unknown
“Find beauty in imperfection and accept the natural cycle of growth and decay”
— Wabi Sabi Philosophy
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
— Francis Bacon
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