#mist

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up. ↗

— Courtney Summers

#mistake #mistakes

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. ↗

— John Irving

#perspective #revelation #self-discovery #mistakes

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life

Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#life

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#experience #future #mistakes #past #sin

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#politics #revolution #faith

She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#gay-literature #michael-tolliver #life

Regret for not learning; not for the mistakes you did. ↗

— Garbyal

#learning #life #mistake #experience

I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation ↗

— Alan Bradley

#creation #experience

If experience is life's best teacher then why do we have to learn by example? ↗

— Terry Blakeman

#experience