“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

“she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

“I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.”
― Sue Fitzmaurice

“Flaws.
We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not be what someone else considers as a flaw. To me, a flaws is an imperfection or a fault in MY eyes. I consider my flaws to be things that I do not like about myself and things that I would like to change.”
― Horacio Jones

“...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin

“If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world...The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal & the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart.”
― Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

“Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.”
― Fabiola Francisco, Perfectly Imperfect

“Messy hair, uncombed, gel-free, un-styled and perfectly imperfect.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Stripped

“When shame is met with compassion and not received as confirmation of our guilt, we can begin to see how slant a lens it has had us looking through. That awareness lets us step back far enough to see that if we can let it go, we will see ourselves as clean where we once thought we were dirty. We will remember our innocence. We will see how our shame supported a system in which the perpetrators were protected and we bore the brunt of their offense — first in its actuality, then again in carrying their shame for it.

If the method we chose to try to beat out shame was perfectionism, we can relax now, shake the burden off our shoulders, and give ourselves a chance to loosen up and make some errors. Hallelujah! Our freedom will not come from tireless effort and getting it all exactly right.”
― Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

“Embracing our imperfections all comes down to our willingness to be vulnerable, to show our soft underbelly instead of working so hard to hide it.”
― David Taylor-Klaus

“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain
Just let her reign
Run wild with her unafraid
Of any rain storms
They only wash the mud away and make way
For double rainbows and sunny days”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

“Being Uniquely YOU is the New Perfect.”
― Stephanie Lahart

“Don’t strive to be perfect, just give it a hundred percent.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“The reason I have felt so empty, so lost at times, is because you were missing.”
― Fabiola Francisco, Perfectly Imperfect

“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin

“At what point after the word perfect was I no longer enough…”
― J. AnnRey, Lost at 3am

“The world is perfect, with all its imperfections.”
― Sahara Sanders, Gods’ Food

“Circumstances don't define you. They shape you. You're molded to make a difference. Let your light shine bright, even through the cracks.”
― Julie Barbera

“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

“You are A PART of a greater whole. You are already greater than you could ever know. If you only knew your own greatness. If you only knew your magic. If you only knew that you are an expansive, limitless, beautiful being. You are your own individual, unique, flawed, messy, stubborn, flesh and blood, human part of it all, and it’s fucking mind blowing. There is stardust in your DNA. The love of God is flowing through your veins. You are important.”
― Rachel D. Greenwell, How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth

“Perfect life is just an illusion and to spend hours scrolling down the Facebook feed means you are making the fantasy world part of your own somehow.”
― Jyoti Patel

“Mia, I already told you I wasn’t going anywhere. This is where I want to be.”
― Fabiola Francisco, Perfectly Imperfect

“We are all gifted in every angle of our life
but
we aren't perfect in every aspect of our life”
― dELSON

“Being a perfectionist is far from perfect.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“We are both damaged at a level that we can't be fixed, and this what it makes me feel relief. I don't need to be perfect for her, neither she for me.”
― Hope J. Ine, Mediterranean Temptation: Inferno Hearts

“I assume that defects are weapons in God's arsenal through which he uses to humble and draw mankind closer to himself.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“A stutter knows exactly when to hide, and when to emerge. It knows pretty well how to ruin a perfect conversation.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia