Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
- Topic: Blessing, Mistakes
- Location: Red Rock Canyon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of the blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fastest fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.