quotes about mistakes in life

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you. ~Jacques Prevert



Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb



Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~Cicero Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950



By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill



I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909



What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~Robert H. Schuller



You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories. ~Deborah Moggach



Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~Author Unknown



One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn



Life's too short for chess. ~Henry James Byron, Our Boys, 1874



I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ~Mahatma Gandhi



No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ~Frederick G. Banting



One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb



The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ~Jean Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957



If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. ~Samuel P. Ginder



They never touch it: consider what an explosion



We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949



Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families. ~Author Unknown



It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. ~Sutton Elbert Griggs



Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby