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After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling. ↗


— Alain de Botton


#career-counseling #meaning #mistakes #work #family

I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes. ↗


— Fiona Apple


#life #mistakes #musician #life

Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to. ↗


— Brock Clarke


#life #mistakes #regret #life

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away. ↗


— Bob Schieffer


#humility #mistakes #self-confidence #life

Everybody is entitle to commit one mistake of each kind in our entire life. ↗


— Professor George O.


#life

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate. ↗


— James M. Cain


#mistakes #love

Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking that drowning only involves what. believe it or not, you have missed quite a number of drowned and drowning people. Some of us are thought to save some one drowning in water, most of us can spot that too, but none of us has been thought to see the other kinds of drowners, nor how to save them. ↗


— chioma Nkachukwu


#drowners #drowning #drowning-one-s-sorrows #drowning-silence-poetry #find-self

The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime ↗


— Gary Chapman


#marriage-humor #marriage-mistakes #marriages #successful-marriage #life

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition. ↗


— Sharon Kay Penman


#repentance #men

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ↗


— Ansel Adams


#care #dodging #establishing #god #made






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