#takes

Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to. ↗

— Brock Clarke

#life #mistakes #regret #life

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#humility #mistakes #self-confidence #life

Everybody is entitle to commit one mistake of each kind in our entire life. ↗

— Professor George O.

#life

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#love #mistakes #vanity #life

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#life #love #mistakes #past #wisedom

I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms. I wanted to, but I did not! ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#mistakes #misunderstandings #sad #love

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate. ↗

— James M. Cain

#mistakes #love

Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking that drowning only involves what. believe it or not, you have missed quite a number of drowned and drowning people. Some of us are thought to save some one drowning in water, most of us can spot that too, but none of us has been thought to see the other kinds of drowners, nor how to save them. ↗

— chioma Nkachukwu

#drowners #drowning #drowning-one-s-sorrows #drowning-silence-poetry #find-self

The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime ↗

— Gary Chapman

#marriage-humor #marriage-mistakes #marriages #successful-marriage #life

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition. ↗

— Sharon Kay Penman

#repentance #men