Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

When I look back through the 1980s and 1990s, those were some of the funniest experiences I had and, sometimes, some of the most difficult.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

My mistakes are my life.

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

One errs as long as one strives.

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.

We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

I've spent my life making blunders.

...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.