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The only way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
Albert Einstein
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley
It's not how we make mistakes, but how we correct them that defines us.
Rachel Wolchin
Admitting our mistakes is a sign of maturity and wisdom. We learn more from knowing our mistakes.
Anonymous
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Al Franken
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner
Gratitude is the attitude that takes you to your altitude.
Michael Beckwith
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
Deborah Reber
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
Steve Maraboli
Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering.
Hal Tipper
Letting go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
Jack Kornfield
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Alyson Noel
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Steve Maraboli
Letting go is the hardest asana.
Anonymous
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open.
C. JoyBell C.
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice M. Swaim
Courage is not about being fearless, it's about being afraid and doing it anyway.
Unknown
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the key to great stories.
Austin Kleon
Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Empathy is the bridge that connects us to other people.
Unknown
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the first step in creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.
John Dewey
The more reflective you are, the more effective you are.
Hall and Simeral
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Margaret J. Wheatley
The unexamined life leads to a life without direction.
Daniel J. Levitin
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett
The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.
Iyanla Vanzant
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Toni Collette
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone.
Unknown
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
Miuccia Prada
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.
Charles Kingsleigh
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).
James Baraz
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.
Prasad Mahes
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
The only way to find true happiness is to stop looking for it outside yourself.
Anonymous
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram Dass
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs
Change is the only constant in life.
Heraclitus
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy
The only way to change the world is to accept it as it is.
Lao Tzu
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
Kathleen Casey Theisen
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
Pema Chödrön
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Vernon Howard
The only way to make the most of life is to accept it for what it truly is.
Unknown
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Joyce Meyer
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.
Ray A. Davis
Patience is the key to paradise.
Turkish Proverb
Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera Nazarian
Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect.
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