#mist

The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again. The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again, And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fullmetal-alchemist #loss #sad #change

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#change

There’s a difference between a mistake and a regret. Everything up to this moment has made this moment. If you can change a mistake, then go out and do what you can to change it. If you can’t change it, there’s no use regretting it because it will just make you miserable. Live right now, even if that involves dealing with the consequences of your actions. Time travel always ends badly. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#mistakes #regret #time-travel #change

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body. ↗

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

#mistakes #weigh-downs #change

سيكونون في ورطة. ليس لديهم برنامج سياسي أبعد من "الإسلام هو الحل". اسألهم عن أي تفاصيل لا تجد عندهم إجابة. ↗

— Ahdaf Soueif

#political-propaganda #love

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#fight #means #mistake #noble #overcome

God loves us so much that he doesn’t let us live forever so we can stop making mistakes ↗

— Carl Henegan

#mistakes #love

The mistake the two of us made,’ I said, ‘was that we skimped the foreplay. I’m not blaming you, it was as much my fault as yours, but it was a fault nonetheless. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#love #mistake #love

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#again #had #i #life #live

...a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground... ↗

— John Geddes

#mistress #poet #love