"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."

Waitley, Denis | Mistakes | 9 bookmarks

"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

Heard, Jane | Adaptability | 5 bookmarks

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin | Action | 10 bookmarks

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu | Freedom | 36 bookmarks

"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

Longinus, Cassius | Failure | 2 bookmarks

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas | Ability | 23 bookmarks

"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle | Insanity | 5 bookmarks

"All nature wears one universal grin."

Fielding, Henry | Nature | 2 bookmarks

"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

Aristotle | Parents and Parenting | 3 bookmarks

"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Difficulties | 3 bookmarks