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Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ...
by James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

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To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel

When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton

Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

If I have seen further, it is
by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton

The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Every day is a new day -
a day for new beginnings, new dreams, new action -
a day for challenge, adventure, and discovery.
TODAY, what is your goal?
What is your dream?
What action are you taking to further your goals and dreams?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no logical way to the discovery
of these elemental laws.
There is only the way of intuition,
which is helped by a feeling
for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie