"This is the very perfection of man, to find but his own imperfection."

-- St. Augustine

"There's nothing wrong with the world; what's wrong is our way of looking at it."

-- Henry Miller

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

-- Tom Robbins

"We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"The key is to be able to make the unusual assumption that perfection is unfolding right before your eyes."

-- Herbert Leff

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

-- Delacroix

"The conditioned belief that you must be perfect is the perfect set-up for self-hate."

-- Cheri Huber

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

-- Annette Funicello

"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."

-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"The desire for perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind."

-- Louis Marquis de Fontanes

"To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice."

-- Charlie Trotter

"Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

-- Annette Funicello

"Don't forget, only a crazy human being needs perfection."

-- Swami Rudrananda (Rudi)

"The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it."

-- Gerard Groote