„That is probably the hardest thing a person can learn, as I so often find in others (and in myself as well in the past) to forgive one’s own mistakes and lapses.“

— Etty Hillesum

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„It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.“
— John C. Maxwell
„The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.“
— George Orwell
„I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing… forgiveness.“
— Louis Zamperini
„The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.“
— Louis Zamperini
„Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.“
— Morrie Schwartz
„If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.“
— Henry Ford
„Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.“
— Harper Lee
„I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.“
— Henry Rollins