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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
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Measures must always, in a progressive society,
be held superior to men, who are after all,
imperfect instruments, working for their fulfillment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Every man casts a shadow;
not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit.
This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,
it falls opposite to the sun;
short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
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