“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.” PersonsSometimesDiesFallImaginationMistakeOne DayProjectsPerfectionFalling In LoveMaking Mistakes Book:Einstein Intersection Source: Einstein Intersection
“My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework, see? Nothing. Our existence she said is the same way. You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6 pm you make the same mistake over and over you stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you'll forget why.” IfsWaySaidMotherLosesForgetExistenceMistakeWatchesExampleTaughtCallingOne DayWake UpTricksRepeatsSunsetOver YouRoutineHomeworkSamenessMonotonySame MistakesPms Author:Phil Kay
“When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.” IfsYearsChildrenTwoDonePurposeMistakeWallOne DayYears AgoCatDistanceTherapyTwo YearsTherapistsFramedTwo Years Ago Book:Swimming to Cambodia Source: Swimming to Cambodia
“The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.” HeavenAnswersMistakeLordOne Day Book:Jesus is Victor Source: Jesus is Victor
“I knew something was wrong that day, he made the mistakes [Pablo Escobar] had never committed throughout the last 10 years as the most wanted man in the world in one day. He never used the phone, he only did the day he was killed.” MenWorldYearsMadeWantedLastsUsedMistakeOne DayPhonesCommittedMost WantedPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldDoeMotherGirlFoundFatherUnderstandingSoundMistakeTearsOne DayForgivingBitterForgive MeMy GirlFound YouBeastlyLearn To Forgive Author:Libba Bray
“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.” I CanMy OwnMistakeOne DayRespectForgivingFaultsIndividualityPursuitBeing DifferentObstinateGreat MistakesCan't Forgive Author:Oscar Wilde