Life Lessons Quotes
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.
Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.
There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure
I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.
The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.
I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.
They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.
There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.
The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.
World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.
No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.
One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.
Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.
Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.
You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.
Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.
This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.
But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.