“No, you’re not a bad person….and I’m not a bad person. We’re just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.”— Francesca Zappia, amazon.com
“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“The honest to God truth is that I’m mad at myself. I should’ve known better.”— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com
“We’re more than our mistakes. We’re more than what people expect of us.”— Marieke Nijkamp, amazon.com
“I am hundreds of little / red decisions scattered on the kitchen floor & so what / if they don’t all taste good.”— Alexis Bates & Logan February, lunalunamagazine.com
“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”— Swami Sivananda, goodreads.com
“I’m still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one’s got it all together. I don’t think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you’d spontaneously combust.”— Michael Thomas Ford, amazon.com
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.”— Salvador Dalí, goodreads.com
“Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn’t; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.”— Geoff Dyer, theparisreview.tumblr.com
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.”— Alfred Sheinwold, amazon.com
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren’t good or bad, they’re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”— Kaye Gibbons, amazon.com
“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com