To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.
Interpretation
Recognizing past mistakes signifies growth and increased wisdom.
This quote emphasizes the importance of humility and reflection in personal growth. By admitting to our past errors, we demonstrate a capacity for learning and adaptability, which are essential components of wisdom and maturity. It suggests that acknowledging our mistakes is not a sign of weakness but rather a step towards becoming a better version of ourselves.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
One must lose one's life to find it.
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.
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