Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

I’d rather live my life knowing that I’m not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you’re not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

I’ve learned … that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

I don’t believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else… finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

I’m not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person.

I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

Sometimes you’re looking to play perfect tennis but it’s not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

…I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An ‘avenging GOD’? One who created Hell for those who don’t believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I’m sorry, but… no. Wrong. You’re wrong. That’s an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don’t you get it?

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we’re all together and you’re mine for a night. And I’m going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish…that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, ‘I don’t want anything more’. Sixty-five years. Don’t they go by in a blink?

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

We don’t realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

Well, you know this world isn’t perfect.’ ‘No, you’re wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It’s never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion – the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being – constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men so perfect because He’d wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.

It’s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day.