Jeannette Walls Quotes

There's no use beating yourself up about what you can't change.

I was stained by failure.

You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

I'm sorry for being me. I won't ever do it again.

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

I used to blame myself for a lot of things, and I apologise loads. I don't do it any more, but when I was in the studio - and it was my song - I'd say 'sorry' every time I got a note wrong.

I'm trying this thing where I don't regret as much 'cause it doesn't really work that well to regret things.

It's hard when you let people down.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?