Sophie Kinsella Quotes

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

You've got to go through times in your life when you're not going to make the greatest decisions. But the thing is, I always say, you grade a person on what they've become after they've made some mistakes. Because it's so easy to make mistakes when you're young.

You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.

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

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

"OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

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!

Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.