“We believe in a godly creator who is genuinely benevolent, but who unfortunately made a number of catastrophic mistakes during the creation process."
"Aha."
"We are disciples of the Stupid Design Theory.”
Source: QualityLand
“Don't Hide Your Past (The Sonnet)
The first few minutes of my first
stage talk were absolute disaster.
First few books were mere intellectual
commentary, lacking in original Naskar.
Don't beat yourself up for the
follies of your early years.
Doesn't matter, you made mistakes,
what counts is, you outgrew your errors.
If a life claims a flawless history,
rest assured, it's a concoction of lies.
Flawlessness is mark of lifelessness,
to be alive means to be battered by cries.
Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity,
they wire your unique perception in place.
Absence of error is the end of living sanity,
to fabricate your past is to obliterate yourself.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“If the only thing I can learn from a situation is that some humans do bad things, it's a waste of my precious time -- I already know that.
What I want to know is: What can this teach me/us about how to improve our humanity?”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“When the response to mistakes, failures, and misunderstandings is emotional, psychological, economic, and physical punishment, we breed a culture of fear, secrecy, and isolation.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“You were not made to tend to the grave of your mistakes because God removed the coffin and backfilled the hole.”
“We need the bad stuff to notice the good stuff. We need loss to appreciate what we have. We need to make mistakes so vital lessons can be learned.”
Source: 10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
“The size of the mistake will always be determined by the size of the commitment to correct it.”
“Im besten Fall entscheidet man richtig, im zweitbesten Fall falsch, korrigiert die Entscheidung aber, und im schlechtesten Fall entscheidet man nicht. Ja, es gibt Menschen, auch in der Politik, welche die Maxime haben: Jedes Problem löst sich von selbst. Das ist für mich eine unhaltbare Einstellung.”
Source: Der Berset-Code: Die Resilienz-Strategien von Alain Berset – Ein Dialog
“We are not defined by our mistakes, but by what we do after we've learned from them.”
Source: White Bird