“Love is rarely flawless,” Carter pointed out. “Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.”

“Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

“why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

“Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

“It is because human needs are contradictory that no human life can be perfect. That does not mean that human life is imperfect. It means that the idea of perfection has no meaning.”

John Gray (1948) British philosopher

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

“Conservatives believe that human nature is what makes us imperfectible. Liberals believe that human nature can be changed and perfected.”

Mike Rosen (1944) American political pundit

“We are bound to those we love by their imperfections — their perfections help us to explain them to others.”

Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) writer, actress; Romanian princess