Wisdom isn’t about not making mistakes, but about learning to escape afterward with our dignity and sanity intact.
- Looking back, we can always see the mistakes we made, but we fail to see the ones looming up.
- The more we are flexible, adventurous, and life-embracing, then the more new avenues there will be to explore – and make mistakes in.
- That’s what youth is all about: a chance to make all the mistakes you can and get them out of the way.
There will be times when it’s an uphill, upstream struggle.
- We will have to battle waterfalls, dams, and raging torrents.
- We have to keep swimming or get swept away.
- Only dead fish swim with the stream. If it was all fluffy and easy, we wouldn’t be tested, tried, forged in the fire of life.
- If it was all easy we couldn’t get stronger.
Try to see each setback as a chance to improve. Trials and mistakes make you stronger, not weaker.
- It is important to know what you are dedicating your life to.
- Make it a motto for life – keep moving forward.
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If you want to, you can let go of any feelings of resentment, regret, and anger. You can accept that you are a fabulous human being because of all the bad things that have happened to you, not in spite of them.
- What is done is done, and you need to just get on with your life.
- Don’t use the labels “good” and “bad.”
- Sure, some of it is indeed bad, but it is how we let it affect us that is the real “bad.”
- Embrace them as character forming, and in general as positive rather than negative.
craving and resource from “The Rules of Life” – A personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life – by Richard Templar