“People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder have intrusive thoughts (or images) that bother them. These can be thoughts about making mistakes, harming someone, contamination, disease, religious preoccupation, fears of impulses or desires, or just about anything that you might consider dangerous, disgu…”— Robert L. Leahy Ph.D., psychologytoday.com
“You constantly strive to do the best that you can do, but when you accidentally send something that you shouldn’t, or when you do something you weren’t supposed to do in the office, you can get really down on yourself. Anxiety can truly be your worst enemy.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anyone who is capable of recognizing their own mistake deserves a second chance.”— Hetty Tullis, thetalko.com
“I’ve always been of the mind that everyone deserves a second chance if they have learned and changed from their mistakes. Learning from your mistake means that you acknowledge it and are willing to take responsibility for yourself.”— Tracee Dunblazier, meetmindful.com
“Giving someone a second chance doesn’t promise a different outcome. More of us need to let those words resonate in our minds, and learn that if we feel hurt or unsure from one mistake, they shouldn’t be given the chance to hurt us again.”— Stefanie Manzi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Because the thing about second chances, the things girls fear more than anything is realizing people don’t change. We hope they grew up and learned from their mistakes. We hope they actually miss us and aren’t just lonely.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”— Ann Brashares, amazon.com
“The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“I'm sure everything will be fine. I'm sure of lots of things that are wrong. I'm highly fallible.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.”— Meg Cabot, azquotes.com
“Don't confuse poor decision -- making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok. We all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Som…”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com
“Welcome to the world. You will hurt the people you love the most. You will say stupid things and embarrass yourself repeatedly. You will crash your car and lose your wallet before the bill comes. You will get sick, sad and lonely.”— Markus Almond, amazon.com
“Cheating is not an accident. Falling off a bike is an accident... You just don't trip and fall into a vagina or on a dick.”— Champagne Pope, twitter.com