“We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.”
Chris Grabenstein book Tilt-a-Whirl
Source: Tilt-a-Whirl
On mistakes, reported in Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941), p. 75
“We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.”
Chris Grabenstein book Tilt-a-Whirl
Source: Tilt-a-Whirl
“if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?”
Sheryl Crow (1962) American musician and actress
“Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.”
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
“What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”
Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants
Source: Water for Elephants
“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet