“How simple, if you knew the consequences, to avoid the dumb mistakes you make in life.”
Source: Twice
“To force a story is to covet mistakes”
“The hardest way to break free from a chain of mistakes is to keep making them until you're no longer able to make mistakes!”
“Some mistakes don’t feel like mistakes until they’ve already rewritten your life.”
Source: Six Minutes Late: When Love and Madness Arrive Together
“She likes his wide, easy smile, the texture of his skin, the thick fair hair on his arms, almost like fur, the wholesome soapy smell of him. And she likes his height. He's taller by far than any British man she's been with; it's excessive, unnecessary, gorgeous. Invisibly, she sighs. Of course, she always knew it was temporary: that's the deal with G.I.'s.”
Source: A Particular Man
“Stressors, incoherence, and even mistakes strengthen antifragile systems, rather than breaking them.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Silly old girl, making such blunders at your age. It’s just as they say: you learn all your life and still die a fool.”
Source: Mother of Learning: ARC 3
“I'd made mistakes, but I'd paid for them. I'd learned from them. Mostly. I'd continue to learn from them. But not if I kept punishing myself over something I couldn't change. I'd done a bad thing, but I wasn't a bad person. I wasn't beyond salvation. Wasn't beyond love.”
Source: Once More with Feeling
“But because, in dealing with what we need to do, we cannot always take the time for such a scrupulous examination, we must concede that human life is often prone to error concerning particular things and that we need to acknowledge the frailty of our nature.”
Source: Meditations on First Philosophy
“I swear it's easier to purge yourself of great errors than of little villainies.”
Source: The Eighth Day of the Week