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Perfect Things Quotes

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

Marc Jacobs
Fashion, Imperfect Things, Interesting

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

Jhumpa Lahiri
Imperfect Things, Imperfect, Rich

We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.

Kathryn Schulz
Regret, Past, Imperfect Things
"33% of Adolescents Regret Their Tattoos, Study Finds" by Derek Beres, bigthink.com. April 11, 2017.

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Alice Munro
Perfect, Poet, Perfect Things
Alice Munro (2012). “Dear Life”, p.253, Random House

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Owen Feltham
Change, Imperfect Things, Perfection
Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

Charles Baudelaire
Eye, Imperfect Things, Poetry
"L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Imperfect Things, Economics, Foresight
John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.312, Princeton University Press

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Ben Jonson
Imperfect Things, Light, Opinion
Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.92, Manchester University Press

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

Tom Stoppard
Imperfect Things, Matter, Free Press
Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

Richard Rohr
Happy Life, Imperfect Things, Unhappy

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