What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there read more
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money.
Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by read more
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !.
There is always a touch of sadness around the most beautiful things in life !.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always read more
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
