The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Explanation:
The earliest close match located by Quote Investigator appeared in a work by the German poet Ludwig Jacobowski titled “Leuchtende Tage” published in the August 1899 issue of a literary journal. The title could be rendered as “Bright Days” or “Radiant Days”. One verse rhapsodized about the bright days of the past, and the next verse began with these two lines:
Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!
I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
Showing up when things get rough, listening to people's problems, and supporting those in need; that's how you become stronger, that's how you grow.
I haven't seen the end to myself either.
But if there's such a thing wouldn't it be you?