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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#chains-of-events #commonplaces-of-existence #cross-purposes #fiction #on-fiction

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#mistakes #life

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#mistakes #regret #life

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#heartbroken #sookie-stackhouse #vampire #life

Life's a bitch,” I said. “And then you die,” Larry finished for me. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#life

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#mistakes #life

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #nor #poverty #simpler #simplify

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#mistakes #life

Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #love #missing-you #passionate-living #romance

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. ↗

— Rick Warren

#hurts #past #life