Jodi Picoult Quotes

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I've learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I've lost fights before.

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.