Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

- Sam Keen

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham

Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,

- Tara Brach

Imperfection is not our personal problem -- it is a natural part of existing.

- Tara Brach

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

- James Luther Adams

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

- James Baldwin

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

- Max Beerbohm

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Still Life With Woodpecker

- Tom Robbins