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