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.