I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
Yohji Yamamoto
There’s plenty of days when I’m like ‘Oh God, why? But that’s just life. It’s every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect.
Beyonce Knowles
Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you’ve built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.
Marilyn Manson (via weedbrain)

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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
I like being a mess. It’s who I am.
Calista Flockhart, Ally McBeal
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
Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (via julie911)

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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Alden Nowlan
I know what she’s talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It’s like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don’t meet up right.
John Green, Paper Towns
That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.
Harold S. Kushner, Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between Conscience and Success
Nothing in life has any business being perfect.
Peter O’Toole, The Lion in Winter
We were a mess together. We were a beautiful mess.
Ben Kingsley, The Wackness
We’re all damaged in our own way. nobody’s perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.
Johnny Depp
Here I am, the victim of my own choices. And I’m just starting.
Calista Flockhart, Ally McBeal
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike