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Sometimes our biggest mistakes give us our greatest reward.

—Kristin Billerbeck in A Girl’s Best Friend

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We should remember that it is easy and foolish to sneer at the mistakes or barbarities of remote ages.

—Hermann Hesse

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower

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I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

—Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

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I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that won't work.

—Thomas Edison

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Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

—Becca Fitzpatrick in Crescendo

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There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

—Joy Harjo

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Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

—Niels Bohr

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Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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I don't think you understand how easy it is to make a mistake that will cost you forever.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

—Edward Abbey

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

—John Scalzi

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

—Al Franken

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