Everyone messes up. How you deal with it is what determines who you are. - Christopher Paolini

The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can’t change.” Falconi paused, his eyes hard and glittering. “Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn’t do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you’ll never be able to fully recover.

I don't know how else to teach you what you need to learn except by showing you your mistakes over and over again until you stop making them.

Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done — or would do — something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?