... you and your mistake are not the same thing... you are not a failure because something you do fails.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
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It's not whether we make mistakes that matters, it's understanding the opportunity they afford us.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
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Let's honor our mistakes by allowing them to teach us.
Molly Gordon "Learning to Learn" by Molly
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If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Stair Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield Treasury of Women's Quotations
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When you change your patterns of thinking, you change the way you feel about yourself, about others, and about the world. And changing the way you feel enables you to deal more productively with your problems and burdens and to take actions necessary to improve your life.
Dr. Arthur Freeman The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid Them
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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go.
The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong.
Forgive yourself and move on. Have the courage to reach out for help.
Bernie S. Siegel, MD Love, Medicine & Miracles
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...let us own our pain and move away from guilt, fault and blame toward recovery and healing.
Bernie S. Siegel, MD Love, Medicine & Miracles
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It seems we may live in a society that has almost forgotten the glory of what it means to be human. We are in need of healing.
M. Scott Peck A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered
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There is only one road to true human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
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Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda Bits & Pieces magazine
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One of the most basic issues we face in our lives is the feeling of failure or guilt. I come froma minority group, families where F stood for feedback or flow and not failure. F's on a test meant a failed test and not a failure as a human being. F's helped me find my place in the universe because the family attitude was, "It was meant to be." And now we would see what good would come of this event.
Bernie S. Siegel, MD Love, Medicine & Miracles
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