“laughing at our own mistakes can lengthen our own life.Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.”
“We can only fix our own lives. We cannot play the role of gods in someone else's.”
“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”
“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both.The Walk - Epilogue Page 288”
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
“A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.”