CURATED COLLECTION

Learning From Your Mistakes

A mistake you don't learn from is just a loss — a mistake you do learn from becomes tuition.

24 quotes found

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Healing is not linear. I keep relearning this.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Happiness is not something ready‑made. It comes from your own actions.

—Daisaku IkedaPhilosopher, Author & Activist

Digital Age ERA • East Asia

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I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally.

—Audrey HepburnActress & Humanitarian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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To fear change is to fear life itself, for life is constant transformation.

—Carmen NaranjoPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Central America

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Patience is the key to every door; with it, difficulties fade.

—Safi al-Din al-HilliPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

—Kahlil GibranPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Middle East

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Leave the past behind, and let the dead bury their dead.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Author

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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Patience is the key to joy. Haste brings sorrow and regret.

—Nizami GanjaviEpic Poet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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You can't control what happens, but you can control how you react.

—Kobe BryantBasketball Player

Digital Age ERA • North America

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It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself too seriously, you're dead in the water.

—Betty WhiteActress, Comedian

Contemporary ERA • North America

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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I'm still learning how to love myself.

—CelesteScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

—Marcus AureliusEmperor & Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

—Virginia WoolfModernist Novelist & Essayist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Happiness is a gift, not a right. One must work for it, earn it.

—Nadezhda MandelstamMemoirist

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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True happiness is finding peace within yourself, despite life's storms.

—Chiung YaoNovelist

Contemporary ERA • East Asia

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

—Charlotte BrontëNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small ones.

—Helen KellerAuthor

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life.

—M. Scott PeckPsychiatrist, Author

Post-War ERA • North America

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You'll have bad times, but they'll always wake you up to the good stuff.

—Robin WilliamsActor, Comedian

Late Modern ERA • North America

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