Quote by Colson Whitehead

“People. Mortals, capable of making mistakes. People always make mistakes. Day in, day out. We are experts in the art of the accident.”

— Jessica Thompson

“It was a mistake that set the world in motion. Never be afraid of making a mistake.”

— Paulo Coelho

“it could be that accidents and mistakes present the clearest opportunity for you to see life as it really is.”

— Teddy Steinkellner

“we don’t live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen,”

— Garth Stein

“I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally…

— Charlotte Rogan

“Once you know that there are no purposes, you also know that there is no accident; for it is only beside a world of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

“But the world does not depend on my understanding to keep its momentum, so fate carried on as it pleased.”

— Tracey Ward

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fates mostly but the echo of his character.”

— John Green

“Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.”

— Ken Dereste Dorcely