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Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who ...

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Are imperfections is which make we grate.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying th...

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At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost...

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But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...

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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the...

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There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, ...

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No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch...

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And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature...

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she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People ...

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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on hi...

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To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...t...

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Louise ErdrichThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Landsman and Bina were married to each other for twelve years and together for five before that. Eac...

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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of...

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At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word...) has...

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There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we ...

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The eye always fills in the imperfections.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits....

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In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is t...

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Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

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Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask ques...

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How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality...

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The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of ...

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I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Ni...

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I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person k...

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You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover man...

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Abigail AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from ach...

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