“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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