We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the courage to give our best effort and not blame our flaws as the cause of failure.

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and...

Go ahead and point out my flaws and weaknesses to me. In doing so it’s just something to get excited about! Knowing there’s a flaw that my Heavenly Daddy wants to make beautiful is rather exciting!

I said I’m selfish, I’m a liar and I’m brokenShit runs through my head every day that I would never tell anyoneYou’re just like meThe only difference is that I’m honest enough to scream my flaws in the lines of this song

Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn’t cracked, none of the brilliance could spill out. Do you realize that?

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!

A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in order to make the point that they are wrong. Or, you can break down the walls of pride...

I hate that our world makes it look like everyone is perfect but you. Each and every one of us is human. Why are all the flaw that we all have hidden like they’re not real?

There are several major flaws in the proposal being introduced today. The notion of using gambling proceeds to help with college tuition reminds us of the promises made by the Ohio Lottery. Gambling didn’t save public schools. It won’t create great opportunities for colleges, either.

The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or...

The only things flawless about me are my flaws.

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings in all kinds, wherewith this ancient sect has honoured the world, shall immediately find, from...

He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

I used to think that people are were supposed to be more strange, and dirty, and full of all sorts of emotions, pity and nobility, with infinite layers of complications.

The players in the case were hoping that the litigation could contribute to correcting the flaws in the process. This result goes even further towards doing that. That’s why everyone is happy with the result and it’s a positive result for the exchange.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you...

When it comes to youI can’t help myselfI’ve never been thisattachedto someone’s flaws

Your weaknesses aren’t destined to be permanent in your life. They are meant to be worked on until they become your strengths.

AS IS” and I’ll take you that way, too.

Often, our relationships become an unrealized quest for what is perfect, unfettered, and free of flaws. We expect our partners, spouses, and our friends to avoid missteps and to be magical mind readers. These secret expectations play a sinister part in many of the great tragedies of our lives: failed marriages, dissipated dreams, abandoned careers,...

For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

Have you ever thought for once that when you look in the mirror you are hyper aware of your flaws? When the rest of us may see something different. Like a teenager with a pimple. She doesn’t focus on her beautiful eyes and cute lips, she zeros in on the one tiny flaw and goes...

You are perfect, Avery. Just like you are, flaws and everything.

Old Korean adage, “Even jade has flaws.” Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?

It’s easy to romanticize the people in our lives that mean something to us. We elevate them onto a higher plane that the rest of humanity. They appear glorious and pristine and full of wonders of the Universe all wrapped up into one person-sized box waiting to be unpacked. It’s easy to forget, when they...

I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damned article.And Rook.Her sharpest agony. She had invested in this guy. Waited for this guy. Felt something for this guy that went beyond the bedroom … or wherever else they took each other. Nikki did not give...

Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fireWoman of the world caught up in your black machinationsI was a woman who cried alone at night, who gave it all away when she saw the good heart of the man insideWoman caught standing up; her open parts are broken -Someone’s armour broke...

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game

You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.’ I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. ‘I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You...

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and even by our sin. His sustaining strength is glorified when we walk through the furnace of affliction.

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

It’s easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That’s growth!

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

… 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.

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

God knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.

n our perfection-obsessed, air-brushed society, it can be tempting to measure our self-worth against its set of impossible standards. However, organic beauty is in the flaws that make us vulnerable, human and fallible. We are here to learn, evolve and grow. We do not need to become perfect to be worthy of love, there is...

There is a spike in front. You pick up any flaws in manufacturing in the first 90 days; it flattens out [soon thereafter], then rises, especially with a mobile product.

Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process of expanding your awareness, of seeing those flaws and imperfections alongside the incredible potential of the universe flowing within you,...

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.