Freedom is not worth having

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

--Mohandas K. Gandhi

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own

--Jessamyn West

A life spent making mistakes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

--George Bernard Shaw

There is light

This year has been a difficult year for me at school (note all the quotes). And as the year comes to a close I am seeing opportunities open up for me. There seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. But I do not yet want to come into the light until I have grown and learned from this challenging time. I am not ready for resurrection unless I am sure I have embraced my cross willingly.

Failure is instructive

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

--John Dewey.

Keep in mind

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

--Mother Teresa

Life is to be lived

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

--Ralph Ellison

We learn wisdom

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

--Samuel Smiles