"Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect." — Laozi

"Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect."

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1,065 Quotes by Laozi

Laozi has 1,065 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall…
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes…
Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have…
What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams…
Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And…
The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know…
Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be…
The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he…

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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank… — Brooks Atkinson
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He… — Teresa of Avila
I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand… — Michele Bachmann
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when… — Drew Barrymore
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet… — Joseph Addison
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect… — Henry Ward Beecher
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with… — Annie Besant
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was… — George Boole
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect… — Max Born
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. — David Byrne

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