Gretchen Rubin Quotes

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

You are a human being and are allowed to be imperfect, and you are allowed to be flawed. There is a lot of beauty in your imperfections, in your uniqueness.

Imperfections define perfection

We are perfect in our imperfection.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

Imperfection means perfection hid.

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.