#mist

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made. ↗

— Alice Bag

#life-lessons #mistakes #philosophy #beauty

Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again. ↗

— Marcia Lynn McClure

#beauty #healing #mistakes #romance #scars

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful ↗

— Ernest Cline

#pessimistic #they-might-be-giants #tmbw #beauty

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#assistant #biochemistry #completed #department #essentially

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#ever #i #know #made #me

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test. ↗

— George W. Bush

#great #great nation #make #make no mistake #mistake

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #bright #bright future #feel #future

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#perfect-chemistry #alex