Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: choice proof changing your mind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [prison] had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. . . . I discovered my real self in Cell 54. —Anwar Sadat More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. —Christina Baldwin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, I find it difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. —Lucy Larcom More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. —Voltaire More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes," he said, "I believe we're given the same lessons to learn, over and over, exactly the same experiences, till we get them right. Things keep circling past us. —Anne Tyler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have no right to ask, when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. —Barbara Bloom More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're going through hell, keep going. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: effort hell continuation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Through error you come to truth. I am a man because I err. You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes, likely 114. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night. —Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz's Peanuts More about this quote Tags: humor time wrong regret Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Failure is an event, never a person. —William D. Brown More about this quote Tags: failure self-worth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw away a life. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: life live Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes. —Joy Harjo More about this quote Tags: mistakes poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email