Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
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Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Every day is a new day -
a day for new beginnings, new dreams, new action -
a day for challenge, adventure, and discovery.
TODAY, what is your goal?
What is your dream?
What action are you taking to further your goals and dreams?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I have seen further, it is
by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no logical way to the discovery
of these elemental laws.
There is only the way of intuition,
which is helped by a feeling
for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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