#take

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. ↗

— Erik Erikson

#child #children #failure #hateful #his

The world is full of lots of people play acting and hurling stuff about, unconscious of the effects. And there are large group karmic things going on through history that none of us should ever take personally. Rushing about trying to rectify the sins of the past is not productive. The best you can do is to be present as the new you in the now, holding your light as a steady candle to add to the beam of calm and love now spreading to help wake more and more people up. Hopefully we will evolve as a species to eventually cease the unnecessary conflict between different groups of ourselves. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#evolve #karmic-effects #take-personally #unconscious #unconscious-mind

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#marriage #mistakes #love

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#mistakes #paradox #timidity #wisdom #wisdom

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loves-ones #mistakes #self-reliance #trust #love

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#character #get #keep #may #takes

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#mistakes

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mistakes

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Norton Juster

#trouble

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then? ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#reputation #crime