...I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing.

Allison Winn Scotch
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On a trip to Ireland I read a quote from the Dublin writer, Alice Dowling. In it, she writes about how she learned from her mistakes and how they have shaped her as a person. She writes, “Every lesson I have ever been taught has been a lesson that I have had to learn or relearn.” As I read the quote, I thought of all the times when I have made wrong choices or done something stupid when in retrospect I should have just listened to my mother or taken another path.

Source: The One That I Want

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