#stakes

Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly - ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#love

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body. ↗

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

#mistakes #weigh-downs #change

Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a necessary ingredient. ↗

— David Schnarch

#love

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarcely dare say it -- but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long? ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#humanity #love #mistakes #love

Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise. ↗

— Beverly S. Harless

#inspirational #life #mistakes #inspirational

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

— Joyce Meyer

#mistakes #persistence #inspirational

Learn from your history, but don’t live in it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#history #inspirational #learn #live #mistakes

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#daughters-of-god #forgiveness #god #grace #growth

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down. ↗

— Jessica Lave

#flaws #inspirational #mistakes #perseverance #inspirational

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. ↗

— Buddha

#going #make #mistakes #only #road