"I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me."

-- Mary Alice

#Mistake Quotes #Past Quotes

“If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.”
“It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1889). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”
“I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.”
“The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.”
“I don't want you to describe to meâ€”not everâ€”what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.”
“I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy...”
“The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.
“Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.”

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