“We are perfect in our imperfection.”
Source: Second Helpings
François Fénelon, in Selections from the Writings of Fenelon: With an appendix, containing a Memoir of his Life (1829) as translated by A Lady (Eliza Lee Cabot Follen) http://books.google.com/books?id=qJ4rAAAAYAAJ, Letter 37, p. 189.
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“We are perfect in our imperfection.”
Source: Second Helpings
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013)
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“There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!”
“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.”
Address at a banquet given by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D.C., May 8, 1909.; found in Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, vol. 1, chapter 7, p. 82 (1910).
“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”
Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There (page127)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)