It is human to make mistakes. In fact, it is a maxim: “It is human to err.”
Knowing this to be inevitable, why repine, or be discouraged?
Follow the example of the small child who falls and picks himself up over and over again. By and by, he can walk without falling down.
Remember this: Every dark cloud has a silver lining. You see the dark side, but if you make your way around to the other side you will see the sun shining.
Much of the discouragement is caused by undertaking more than we can accomplish. If that is the case, then by leaving off a little here and there we shall soon reduce our enterprise to a success that we can handle.
DON’T BE PREJUDICED
We sometimes dislike a man, or hate him, which is the same thing, because he possesses certain peculiarities of person or conduct which are different from ours, or has ideas that are different from those we favor.
The man may be a perfect stranger to us, and we may know nothing about his environments or conditions under which he lives, or the reasons why he differs from us—we hate him all the same and take the other side of the street rather than meet him face to face.
If we were to look into ourselves we might believe that this man we dislike, has many reasons for not liking us.
We show prejudice when we judge any man. “Judge not, lest ye be judged,” says Christ. You are not the judge of any man’s conduct, and to judge him entails slander, backbiting, and conspiracies to his undoing.