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25 Quotes That'll Teach You To Love The Flaws No One Even Notices

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25 Quotes That'll Teach You To Love The Flaws No One Even Notices

It is the flaw that brings out beauty.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

— Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale

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No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.

— Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

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And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.

— Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Flaws Weakness Greatness

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To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

— Criss Jami, Killosophy

Flaws strength Appearance compliments

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Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

— Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

— Aaron McGruder, Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper

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The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

— Anna Godbersen, Splendor (Luxe)

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We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

— Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

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Love, no matter how it’s expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn’t diminish it.

— Erin McCarthy, The Pregnancy Test

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People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn't. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day.

— Ashly Lorenzana, All I Know

Flaws Love imperfect People

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He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

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This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

— Colleen Hoover, Slammed: A Novel

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Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

— Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist Box Set

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I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

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We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

— Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World

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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories

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They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what — those flaws almost made them greater.

— Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production

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I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates...But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

— Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

True Love Soul Mates Love Flaws

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I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her

Relationships humanity humans Flaws Weak Mistakes Good At Wine

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Pointing out other women’s flaws won’t ever, ever conceal yours. Also, it feels really shitty and we already have more than enough media and ignorance circulating the world, telling women how they should look as it is.

— Mandy Zucker, 20 Tips For Modern Women

Flaws Making Fun Of Other People tips Critics Criticism

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The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

Flaws humanity Evil Cruelty

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People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.

— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Flaws human Being human Making Mistakes Empathy

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People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.

— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Flaws human Being human Making Mistakes Empathy

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I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders... I fall in love too easily... I have fierce spells of self-doubt.

— Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You

Love Flaws Self-Doubt

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It's easy to romanticize the people in our lives that mean something to us. We elevate them onto a higher plane that the rest of humanity. They appear glorious and pristine and full of wonders of the Universe all wrapped up into one person-sized box waiting to be unpacked. It's easy to forget, when they appear perfect in every way and in every facet of their lives with every action they take, in the end they are still human. And we duly forget being human comes with an inherent composition of flaws in our genetic and mental make-up.

— August Clearwing, Never Have I Ever by August Clearwing (2013-01-16)

Flaws Genetics human

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