“Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Some people can make mistakes, make amends, and move on. And some of us live with each and every mistake we make carved into us, into hollow places we don't know how to fill.”
Source: The Grandest Game
“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has a broken moral compass. Compasses have value because they point toward a single magnetic North, not a moving position.”
Source: The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
“We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.”
Source: Troubled Blood
“There’s Ambien-in-alcohol weird and then there’s Ambien-mistaken-for-cocaine weird.”
Source: Red Russia
“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.”
Source: The Republic and Other Works
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
“I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. To bad I drew my mistakes in ink.”
Source: Open Road Summer
“Your mistakes only define the rest of your life if you let them. Don’t let them.”
Source: A Sky Beyond the Storm