“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”

“In order to wash away past mistakes, it is necessary to have both repentance in the ‘relative’ and bliss in the ‘Real’.”

“I don’t know about you but I’ve learned plenty from mistakes and I want to learn from laughing now.”

“How am I still making stupid mistakes in my eighties? Whenever somebody says to me, “Maybe it’ll come with age,” I want to say, ‘I wouldn’t count on it.”

“Remember: Mistake is not for mistake, it is for alteration!”

“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”

“Making mistakes is the only way to learn, ye ken? Look at me. I’m the wisest woman in Scotland.”

“To abandon the past is to throw away all of the elements that will build my future. And that creates a landfill I can’t afford to fill.”

“Some people have made some mistakes … and some mistakes have made some people.”

“Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them”. HS/el”

“Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.”

“Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.”

“Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.”

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”