mistakes

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d9be792	Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?	new-day inspirational fresh-start start-over beginnings tomorrow mistake mistakes	L.M. Montgomery
5b94198	If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.	letting-go change life inspirational growth mistakes	Steve Maraboli
c95dd60	When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.	life mistakes	Paulo Coelho
d97e981	We learn from failure, not from success!	learning wisdom records experience mistakes	Bram Stoker
70dd9e7	Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.	inspirational mistakes	L.M. Montgomery
c6415dc	It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.	trust loves-ones self-reliance mistakes	Jodi Picoult
4e10aa8	Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.	wisdom timidity paradox mistakes	Oscar Wilde
9867b1c	"Will's voice dropped. "Everyone makes mistakes, Jem." "Yes," said Jem. "You just make more of them than most people." "I --" "You hurt everyone," said Jem. "Everyone whose life you touch." "Not you," Will whispered. "I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you." Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. "Will --" "You can't never forgive me," Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. "I'd be --" "Alone?" Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. "And whose fault is that?"	loneliness jem-carstairs will-herondale mistakes	Cassandra Clare
5ba6e24	We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.	struggles motivational life inspirational living-now self-empowerment mistakes regret	Steve Maraboli
842e668	Live the Life of Your Dream	action being-positive live perseverance inspiration living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life dreams positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational startup achievement setbacks believe-in-yourself living-life act do self-belief doing obstacles hard-work start belief mistakes	Roy T. Bennett
58f4334	I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.	intelligence self-recognition mistakes	J.K. Rowling
a83e5ef	Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!	action destiny change empowerment motivational success life inspirational mistakes	Steve Maraboli
94a2059	I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.	pretexts justification mistakes	Rudyard Kipling
2d81f08	In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.	risk humanity inspirational mistakes school	Robert T. Kiyosaki
fcaeaf2	It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness.	courage inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational mistakes	Roy T. Bennett
aa9ca36	The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.	mistakes regret	Jonathan Safran Foer
f7bcb40	One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.	persistence inspirational mistakes	Joyce Meyer
3d30d0c	And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.	progress responsibility erring mistakes	Kurt Vonnegut
a7e2f0a	You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.	mistakes	Ray Bradbury
218d09b	"It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."	lessons mistakes	Norton Juster
b1af5b4	I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.	be-yourself sex word-junkies feelings relationships beauty heartbreak life-lessons heart life love truth inspirational realist best heartache infatuation sentimental head mistakes lust	Crystal Woods
99c40e6	Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.	marriage mistakes	Jodi Picoult
04c5855	I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.	learning invitation intervention mistakes	Elizabeth Gilbert
5e28bbb	It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.	mistakes	Paulo Coelho
907ba68	And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.	humor ship mistakes fire	Scott Westerfeld
ac533a5	So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.	inspirational neil-gaiman mistakes	Neil Gaiman
8bf75fa	Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.	inspirational mistakes	Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
fb5e605	It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.	upbringing mistakes children	T.H. White
1cc2210	Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?	love mistakes	Nick Hornby
1ea73ec	If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.	mistakes	Jodi Picoult
d246386	Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us.	story reading writing god life nesbit railway christian mistakes	E. Nesbit
e49f1c2	Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.	fathers trust heartbreak love sansa-stark george-r-r-martin game-of-thrones queen mistakes prince	George R.R. Martin
229f4cc	You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you	motivation motivational success life inspirational mistakes failure	Maxwell Maltz
58116c8	"But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak"	human life human-condition trial priest mistakes guilty	Franz Kafka
7d2017a	We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.	understanding mistakes	Curtis Sittenfeld
9f5c713	If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.	setbacks offense failures patterns mistakes forgetfulness self-esteem	Robert Greene
ab2e7cb	"I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes."	mistakes	Louis Sachar
1e31772	If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.	living haunted mistakes	Chuck Palahniuk
407c0e9	We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.	love unperfect mistakes	Nicholas Sparks
bbaedea	IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.	success weakness mistakes self-improvement self-help	Napoleon Hill
e0bc22b	It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.	wise mistakes	John C. Maxwell
78bc10a	Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision...	stupidity galaxies jernau-morat-gurgeh time-travel mistakes shame regret	Iain M. Banks
14535d2	Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.	life mistakes	Neil Gaiman
ad6bb37	The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history--the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen	reality truth realist dreamer mistakes	Robert Greene
582a0a4	How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!	war hate history fun books uncaring classism starving history-repeating-itself cave bombs forgotten rich poor mistakes ignorance	Ray Bradbury
1e7c2c0	You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.	life mistakes	Ron Rash
dbf9556	Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.	life mistakes	Barbara Kingsolver
4d6bceb	...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.	time captain-dimak catching-mistakes misuse-of-time information mistakes teaching children	Orson Scott Card
8e4b288	Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.	love mistakes	Elizabeth Peters
811c66a	If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.	jonh-the-baptist improvement mistakes	Christopher Moore
35fa7dd	Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!	lessons mistakes	James Fenimore Cooper
855c32d	There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--	inferno mistakes	Dante Alighieri
9fd6575	"Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might."	mistakes	L.M. Montgomery
c4216b2	"You know," she murmured, "we're all heading straight to hell." "Yes," said Masako, giving her a bleak look. "It's like riding downhill with no brakes." "You mean, there's no way to stop?" "No, you stop all right - when you crash." --	mistakes trouble regret hell	Natsuo Kirino
fc7c9d1	After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling.	meaning work career-counseling mistakes	Alain de Botton
2197574	He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?	look-alike mistakes	Jonathan Safran Foer
0568046	"Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse."	learning mistakes	Elizabeth Peters
bd645d2	There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.	present past life reverse said the-neighbor undone mistakes	Lisa Gardner
3610317	I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.	loss life-lessons life getting-fired job-losses losing-hope losing-self employment careers learning-from-mistakes mistake self-worth mistakes failure human-nature	Gillian Flynn
abff146	No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.	life mistakes	Tess Gerritsen
30503c4	And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.	past life love wisedom mistakes	Khaled Hosseini
4b27f5c	It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger.	deep-thoughts thoughtful mistakes	Maria V. Snyder
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39666bd	You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.	ray-bradbury mgg mistakes	Ray Bradbury
4b52a02	I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.	lies love weakness mistakes	Agatha Christie
d87de50	You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.	experiences feelings memories difficulty challenges forgetting forgiveness mistakes regret	Lois Lowry
86fa944	Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.	learning american-civil-war-biography experience mistakes	Shelby Foote
d273efd	America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the people dispensed with what was difficult or inconvenient to acknowledge. So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were no plaques to commemorate mistakes. But the past didn't forget. History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required period exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences.	history mistakes ghosts democracy	Libba Bray
72c0f89	Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.	retrospection mistakes	Gregory David Roberts
0fc53d5	"No-one loves another More than he loves whatever	love mistakes vanity	Fernando Pessoa
989ce1c	"So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love."	romance love lola-and-the-boy-next-door lola-nolan mistakes	Stephanie Perkins
110699b	"I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears." --	goals mistakes	Richard Wright
1aa18cc	the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.	wisdom perspective mistakes	Alexandre Dumas
01a3019	I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.	mistakes-we-make mistakes	Mary Alice Monroe
daf339f	Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked.	mistakes	Mark Z. Danielewski
26c8701	Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.	loss mistakes	Rebecca Solnit
8380434	But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.	human leadership error disaster imperfection hierarchy follow mistakes	Frank Herbert
f19a75e	Such a fierce little thing she is, they say, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.	feelings comfort fierceness fire-and-blood mistakes	George R.R. Martin
51c47af	If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.	nature learning life teacher parenting mistakes	Randy Alcorn
0509a6d	I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.	mistakes self-help	Ray Bradbury
dce2077	"So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love."	romance love lola-and-the-boy-next-door lola-nolan mistakes	Stephanie Perkins
80d8074	she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.	the-human-condition mistakes	Jonathan Safran Foer
4c84f90	Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation.	suffering teachers mistakes	Natalie Goldberg
1fd1fb1	The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.	existence courage challenges speaking teachers mistakes teaching	Madeleine L'Engle
5ba3ad7	I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember best of all, though, was the sudden certainty that the gods were with me, that they would fight for me, that my sword would be their sword. 'We're going to win,' I told my son. I felt as if Odin or Thor had touched me. I had never felt more alive and never felt more certain. I knew there would be no more mistakes and that this was no dream. I had come to Bebbanburg and Bebbanburg would be mine.	thor best bebbanburg frowning puzzlement touched were mine odin certainty laughing me gods son moment mistakes remember sudden fight swords	Bernard Cornwell
9647e1f	When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .	marriage love mistakes	Anne Brontë
96ec6c6	No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....	wisdom mistakes regrets	Richard Russo
b326c74	Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who say that the star deities populated the world: Evening Star and Morning Star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy came from the Sun and the Moon. Humans rode in on the back of a tornado. Mr. Hume, my science teacher, taught us about this primordial soup full of natural gases and muddy slop and carbon matter that somehow solidified into one-celled organisms called choanoflagellates... which sound a lot more like a sexually transmitted disease than the start of the evolutionary chain, in my opinion. But even once you get there, it's a huge leap from an amoeba to a monkey to a whole thinking person. The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe, it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions. More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.	anna-fitzgerald choanoflagellates pawnee-myth mistakes genesis	Jodi Picoult
ec8250b	"This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather it's all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. It's the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes we found ourselves in. Yet there are so many others who are not alive today, and I feel obligated in not allowing the lessons of their mistakes to lie in the grave with them. It was the United States Senator, Al Franken, who stated, "Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." I'm revealing all of those mistakes and more, sadly a lot of them are fatal. In an attempt to have these real life lessons obtained in blood, prevent the blood-shedding of so many others. These stories are ones that young people can understand and identify with. While at the same time empowering them, to make better decisions about their choice of friends, the proper use of their time and how one wrong move can be fatal. I guess the major question that we all have to ask ourselves at the end of the day would be: how could I and so many others have been prevented from becoming monsters? You be the judge. I now extend my hand to you, and personally invite you to take a journey with me into the heartlands of innocence to menacing, from a youngster to a monster, and the making of a predator. I will safely walk you down the deserted and darkened street corners which were once my world of crime, gang violence and senseless murders. It's a different world unto itself, one which could only be observed up close by invitation only. Together we will learn the motivation behind hard-core gangsters, and explore the minds of cold-blooded murderers. You will discover the way they think about their own lives, and why they are so remorseless about the taking of another's life. So, if you will, please journey with me as we discover together how the fight of our lives were wrapped up in our fathers."	darkness life-lessons anti-social-behaviors bloodshed cold-blooded deserted die-hard-gangsters generation-x inner-city menacing remorseless senseless-murders under-ground-world rebelling social-ills harden-criminals at-risk-youth crime-prevention social-science fatherhood friendships mistakes choices monsters	Drexel Deal
721b44f	When I consider my life objectively, it does not seem particularly happy. Yet I cannot really call it unhappy, despite all my mistakes. After all, it is quite foolish to talk about happiness and unhappiness, for it seems to me that I would not exchange the unhappiest days of my life for all the happy ones.	unhappiness happiness hermann-hesse happiness-quotes mistakes	Hermann Hesse
321d6e1	It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know is that it's wrapped around you, sometimes a little tighter than you'd like. But clearly there have been some mistakes. Bad ones. You can tell that just by looking at him.	mistakes one-last-thing	Jonathan Tropper

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

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L.M. Montgomery

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If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

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Steve Maraboli

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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

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Paulo Coelho

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We learn from failure, not from success!

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Bram Stoker

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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

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L.M. Montgomery

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It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

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Jodi Picoult

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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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Oscar Wilde

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"Will's voice dropped. "Everyone makes mistakes, Jem." "Yes," said Jem. "You just make more of them than most people." "I --" "You hurt everyone," said Jem. "Everyone whose life you touch." "Not you," Will whispered. "I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you." Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. "Will --" "You can't never forgive me," Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. "I'd be --" "Alone?" Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. "And whose fault is that?"

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Cassandra Clare

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We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

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Steve Maraboli

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Live the Life of Your Dream

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Roy T. Bennett

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I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

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J.K. Rowling

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Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!

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Steve Maraboli

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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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Rudyard Kipling

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In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

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Robert T. Kiyosaki

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It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness.

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Roy T. Bennett

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The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

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Jonathan Safran Foer

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One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

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Joyce Meyer

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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

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Kurt Vonnegut

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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

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Ray Bradbury

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"It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

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Norton Juster

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I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.

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Crystal Woods

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Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

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Jodi Picoult

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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

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Paulo Coelho

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And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

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Scott Westerfeld

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So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

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Neil Gaiman

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Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.

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Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

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It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

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T.H. White

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Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?

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Nick Hornby

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If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

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Jodi Picoult

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Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us.

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E. Nesbit

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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.

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George R.R. Martin

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You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

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Maxwell Maltz

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"But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak"

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Franz Kafka

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We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.

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Curtis Sittenfeld

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

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Robert Greene

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"I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes."

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Louis Sachar

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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

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Chuck Palahniuk

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We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

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Nicholas Sparks

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IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.

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Napoleon Hill

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It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

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John C. Maxwell

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Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision...

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Iain M. Banks

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Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

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Neil Gaiman

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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history--the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen

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Robert Greene

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How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!

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Ray Bradbury

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You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

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Ron Rash

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Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

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Barbara Kingsolver

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...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.

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Orson Scott Card

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Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

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Elizabeth Peters

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If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

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Christopher Moore

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Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

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James Fenimore Cooper

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There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--

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Dante Alighieri

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"Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might."

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L.M. Montgomery

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"You know," she murmured, "we're all heading straight to hell." "Yes," said Masako, giving her a bleak look. "It's like riding downhill with no brakes." "You mean, there's no way to stop?" "No, you stop all right - when you crash." --

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Natsuo Kirino

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After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling.

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Alain de Botton

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He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

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Jonathan Safran Foer

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"Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse."

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Elizabeth Peters

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There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.

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Lisa Gardner

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I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

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Gillian Flynn

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No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.

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Tess Gerritsen

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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

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Khaled Hosseini

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It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger.

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Maria V. Snyder

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Naguib Mahfouz

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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

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Ray Bradbury

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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

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Agatha Christie

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You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

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Lois Lowry

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Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

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Shelby Foote

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America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the people dispensed with what was difficult or inconvenient to acknowledge. So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were no plaques to commemorate mistakes. But the past didn't forget. History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required period exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences.

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Libba Bray

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Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.

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Gregory David Roberts

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"No-one loves another More than he loves whatever

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Fernando Pessoa

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"So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love."

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Stephanie Perkins

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"I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears." --

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Richard Wright

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the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.

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Alexandre Dumas

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I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

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Mary Alice Monroe

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Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked.

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Mark Z. Danielewski

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Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

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Rebecca Solnit

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But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.

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Frank Herbert

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Such a fierce little thing she is, they say, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.

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George R.R. Martin

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If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

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Randy Alcorn

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I know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

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Ray Bradbury

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"So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love."

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Stephanie Perkins

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she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

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Jonathan Safran Foer

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Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation.

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Natalie Goldberg

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The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.

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Madeleine L'Engle

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I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember best of all, though, was the sudden certainty that the gods were with me, that they would fight for me, that my sword would be their sword. 'We're going to win,' I told my son. I felt as if Odin or Thor had touched me. I had never felt more alive and never felt more certain. I knew there would be no more mistakes and that this was no dream. I had come to Bebbanburg and Bebbanburg would be mine.

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Bernard Cornwell

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When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .

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Anne Brontë

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No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....

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Richard Russo

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Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who say that the star deities populated the world: Evening Star and Morning Star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy came from the Sun and the Moon. Humans rode in on the back of a tornado. Mr. Hume, my science teacher, taught us about this primordial soup full of natural gases and muddy slop and carbon matter that somehow solidified into one-celled organisms called choanoflagellates... which sound a lot more like a sexually transmitted disease than the start of the evolutionary chain, in my opinion. But even once you get there, it's a huge leap from an amoeba to a monkey to a whole thinking person. The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe, it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions. More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.

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Jodi Picoult

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"This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather it's all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. It's the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes we found ourselves in. Yet there are so many others who are not alive today, and I feel obligated in not allowing the lessons of their mistakes to lie in the grave with them. It was the United States Senator, Al Franken, who stated, "Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." I'm revealing all of those mistakes and more, sadly a lot of them are fatal. In an attempt to have these real life lessons obtained in blood, prevent the blood-shedding of so many others. These stories are ones that young people can understand and identify with. While at the same time empowering them, to make better decisions about their choice of friends, the proper use of their time and how one wrong move can be fatal. I guess the major question that we all have to ask ourselves at the end of the day would be: how could I and so many others have been prevented from becoming monsters? You be the judge. I now extend my hand to you, and personally invite you to take a journey with me into the heartlands of innocence to menacing, from a youngster to a monster, and the making of a predator. I will safely walk you down the deserted and darkened street corners which were once my world of crime, gang violence and senseless murders. It's a different world unto itself, one which could only be observed up close by invitation only. Together we will learn the motivation behind hard-core gangsters, and explore the minds of cold-blooded murderers. You will discover the way they think about their own lives, and why they are so remorseless about the taking of another's life. So, if you will, please journey with me as we discover together how the fight of our lives were wrapped up in our fathers."

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Drexel Deal

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When I consider my life objectively, it does not seem particularly happy. Yet I cannot really call it unhappy, despite all my mistakes. After all, it is quite foolish to talk about happiness and unhappiness, for it seems to me that I would not exchange the unhappiest days of my life for all the happy ones.

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Hermann Hesse

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It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know is that it's wrapped around you, sometimes a little tighter than you'd like. But clearly there have been some mistakes. Bad ones. You can tell that just by looking at him.

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Jonathan Tropper