#mistakes

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#mistakes

Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

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Then I made a stupid mistake and looked up at him. His eyes met mine, and for a moment, his face was open and vulnerable in the moonlight. I caught a hint of wonder there as we stared at each other. Slowly, he leaned forward. I caught my breath, a tiny gasp escaping. He stiffened, and his expression shuttered closed, eyes going hard and frosty. [...] 'This is getting old,' he said in a voice that matched his eyes. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#vulnerability #winter-prince #mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#mistakes

You may be trying to claim the woman, his eyes said, but make no mistake, she and the fucking fireplace are mine. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#mistakes

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

#erring #mistakes #progress #responsibility #progress

God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself -Misato Katsuragi ↗

— Hideaki Anno

#mistakes #sin #regret

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. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#mistakes #wise #leadership

It's shocking the things we call love. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #mistakes #surprise #life

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes. ↗

— Sarah van Waterschoot

#life #past #life