Mistakes
Quotes - Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in
another direction
“It’s
okay to not be perfect and not to have everything figured out. It’s okay to
feel things that are shameful, hate, and feel guilty. I feel like the message
we’ve tried to stand by, is that it’s basically okay to have scars and to show
them. To show that you’ve been through all sorts of things and have come out a
different and better person because of it.”
―
Hayley Williams
“Every
trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!”
―
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
“You
got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got
narrow real quick.”
―
Ron Rash, Serena
“You
can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“Sometimes
God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“When
we are young, Angela, we may fall victim to the misconception that time will
heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we
get older, we learn this sad truth: some things can never be fixed. Some
mistakes can never be put right - not by the passage of time, and not by our
most fervent wishes, either. In my experience, this is the hardest lesson of
them all.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls
“There
is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes
were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a
weasel.”
―
Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
“Most
people, if they know they have done wrong, foolishly suppose they can conceal
their error by defending it, and finding a justification for it; but in my
belief there is only one medicine for an evil deed, and that is for the guilty
man to admit his guilt and show that he is sorry for it. Such an admission will
make the consequences easier for the victim to bear, and the guilty man
himself, by plainly showing his distress at former transgressions, will find
good grounds of hope for avoiding similar transgressions in the future.”
―
Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander
“I
think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but
to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.”
―
Shelby Foote
“We
have all made mistakes, each and every one of us. The trick is to not keep
making them over and over.” “I don’t,” I said, not modestly but truthfully. “I
keep finding new mistakes to make. I suspect that I have a genius for it.”
―
Sara Poole, Poison
“Our
mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a
necessary ingredient.”
―
David Schnarch, Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in
Committed Relationships
“The
devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our
ignorance, and who wins after all?”
―
Maya Angelou Kwabena kodom Nicholas Sparks Rosa Parks
“This
is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned
by imponderables of which we are only dimly aware. People sometimes say,
"the strangest coincidence happened." Coincidences may seem strange,
but they are never a result of caprice. They are orderly laws in the spiritual
life of man. They affect and influence our lives profoundly. These so-called
imponderables are so important that you should become spiritually sensitized to
them. Indeed, the more spiritually minded you become the more acute your
contact will be with these behind-the-scenes forces. By being alive to them
through insight, instruction, and illumination, you can make your way past
errors and mistakes on which, were you less spiritually sensitive, you might
often stumble.”
―
Norman Vincent Peale, Stay Alive All Your Life
“Stay
away from any minute of joy that can bring you a lifetime of sorrow.”
―
Dennis E. Adonis
“There
are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be
unsaid.”
―
Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor
“Learning
to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.”
―
Suzanne Harper, The Juliet Club
“The
past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to
live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will
never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to
shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are
accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are
twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there
be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no
past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of... our love.”
―
Ildefonso Falcones, La catedral del mar
“The
longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.”
―
Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss
“What
good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes
and the father of irritation.”
―
Steve Maraboli
“We
are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain
our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t draw up religious barriers to separate
us from each other. Man did. And on top of that, no father would like to see
his children fighting or killing each other. The Creator favors the man who
spreads loves over the man who spreads hate. A religious title does not make
anyone more superior over another. If a kind man stands by his conscience and
exhibits truth in his words and actions, he will stand by God regardless of his
faith. If mankind wants to evolve, we must learn from our past mistakes. If
not, our technology will evolve without us.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
