"Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life."

-- Sue Monk Kidd

#Good Night Quotes #Mother Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.”
“The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.”

Source : Dietrich Von Hildebrand (2001). “Transformation in Christ”, p.171, Ignatius Press
“Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.”
“To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.”
“A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.”
“Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.”
“When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy to love. People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.”
“I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.”

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