“In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.”

“We look down our noses at people who’ve made mistakes in relationships. She’s so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.”

“She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.”

“One needn’t stop dysfunction; just evince and reflect.”

“Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.”

“Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.”

“A man never forgets his mistakes.”

“Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime.”

“If we learn the most by our mistakes the wise have the most failures. While the timid and unfailing will always be missing true knowledge and perspective.”

“Life is too short to repeat your mistakes, make new ones..!!”

“Mistakes we make in the past sometimes keep us connected. Heartache sometimes keeps us connected.”

“You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.”

“The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.”

“Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.”