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
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
Failure is an event, never a person.
—William D. Brown
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw away a life.
—Unknown
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
—Joy Harjo
How frequently in the course of our lives the evil which in itself we shun, and which when we fall into it is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance.
—Daniel Dafoe
I've learned that it's all about choice. You can choose to turn regrets into lessons that change your future.
—Ali Harris in The First Last Kiss
Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.
—Donna Lynn Hope
It's really starting to get to me and I'm not sure how to handle it because I can't remember ever letting anything get to me before. I can't remember ever feeling this vulnerable.
—Jason Myers in Exit Here
Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got…and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
—Charles Bukowski
That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.
—Sarah Rayner in One Morning
There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
—Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls
I want a new past, new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
—Isaac Marion in Warm Bodies
Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.
—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth