#take

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#cost #crime #give-and-take #good-and-evil #humanity

When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#historical #humorous #mistakes #food

To err is human, to forgive, divine. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#forgiveness #humanity #mistakes #forgiveness

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#letting-go #life #mistakes #moving-on #forgiveness

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself. ↗

— Linda Sue Park

#mistakes #forgiveness

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you. ↗

— Libba Bray

#father #forgiveness #gemma-doyle #kartik #love

There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#mistakes #forgiveness

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. ↗

— Dan Harmon

#community #forgive #forgiving #mistakes #forgiveness

Don’t forgive people until they understand their mistakes. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#mistake #people #forgiveness

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#becomes #body #choosing #i #indelible