"Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on."

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Source : Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

Sean Covey

#Motivational Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Moving Quotes

“If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”
“The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.”
“I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.”
“We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.”
“Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.”

Source : Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?”
“Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.”

Source : Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.82

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