“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”— Douglas Kennedy, amazon.com
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”— Brené Brown, facebook.com
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“The thing about imperfections is that you never knew you had them until someone decides to point them out.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“It’s not about finding a perfect person but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”— Sam Keen, amazon.com
“Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack in place…”— John Green, amazon.com
“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.’”— Marilyn Monroe, amazon.com
“Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life energy. Humans connect with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting…”— Robert Glover, amazon.com
“I adore my own lost being, my imperfect substance, my silver set and my eternal loss.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.”— Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, youtube.com