“It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it...”

“I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.”

“If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened.”

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”

“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”

“A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.”