Sri Chinmoy Quotes

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?

We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

I'll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons.

We like flawed people.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

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.

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together.

There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and... bless us all.

Some men are more perfect than others.

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.