Quotes by Mistake I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging. Anne Lamott mistake heart fall You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. Anne Lamott making-mistakes who-you-are mistake My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake. Anne Lamott decision mistake needs God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing. Anne Lamott crazy mistake jesus My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself. Anne Lamott mistake teacher people The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to think it’s the small things we control and not the large, it’s the other way around! We can’t stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident – or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order large enough to see. Anne Michaels wine mistake running One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'. Anne Morrow Lindbergh prayer mistake writing The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence. Anne O'Hare McCormick decision mistake long We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush Anne Sullivan Macy hedgehogs said mistake It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. Anne Sullivan Macy educational mistake children My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even. Anne Tyler new-beginnings cousin mistake Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you. Anneli Rufus walking-away mistake running We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another. Annette Bening degrees evil mistake The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned. Annie Besant buddhist buddhism mistake Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge. Annie Dillard mistake men children Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone. Annie Dillard buddhism mistake thinking A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident. Anquan Boldin guy play mistake Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. Ansel Adams care photography mistake You can talk so much. The proof is how you compete to the guy next to you and if a guy makes a mistake, you've got to be there to pick him up and not put him down. Anson Carter next guy mistake Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury essence doe mistake «1213141516171819202122»