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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Tags: forgiveness, mistakes, forgive, grit

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Jessamyn West

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Tags: adversity

About Author
Jessamyn West may refer to:

Jessamyn West (writer) (1902–1984), American writer
Jessamyn West (librarian) (born 1968), American librarian and blogger

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Jessamyn West

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Tags: want, facts, easier

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jessamyn West

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Tags: broken, bone, forever

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Tags: mistakes, blunders

If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Jessamyn West

If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Tags: helping, people

Groan and forget it.

Jessamyn West

Groan and forget it.

Tags: events

Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

Jessamyn West

Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

Tags: courage

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Tags: imagination, books, fiction, inspirational

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Tags: success

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaki...

Jessamyn West

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaki...

Tags: alone, society, friends

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Jessamyn West

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Tags: learning, helping, people

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Tags: failures, mistakes, forgiveness

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Tags: humor, appreciate, irony

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Jessamyn West

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Tags: future, history, imagination, work, past

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

Jessamyn West

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

Tags: memory, will, hold

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Jessamyn West

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Tags: death, writing, past, words

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is y...

Jessamyn West

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is y...

Tags: communication, ignorance, young, first