"one who makes no mistakes makes nothing"

-- Giacomo Casanova

#Mistake Quotes #Making Mistakes Quotes

“Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement.”
“Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.”
“Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.”
“He said my name the way diabetics talked about hot fudge sundaes.”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unemployed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.42, Penguin
“I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.”
“To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall”
“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”
“Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.”

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