Lesson Quotes - Page 3

From attraction and affectionCover of perfectionFailure beyond texture to a painful lessonEverything that was from the start wasn't from the heart

Every pain is a lesson.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

Nothing shines up a halo faster than death Matthew. But funerals are for the living... and revising history... only dilutes the lessons we should learn from it.

So the next time you doubt the strangeness of the future, remember how you were born in a hunter-gatherer tribe ten thousand years ago, when no one knew of Science at all. Remember how you were shocked, to the depths of your being, when Science explained the great and terrible sacred mysteries that you once revered so highly. Remember how you once believed that you could fly by eating the right mushrooms, and then you accepted with disappointment that you would never fly, and then you flew. Remember how you had always thought that slavery was right and proper, and then you changed your mind. Don't imagine how you could have predicted the change, for that is amnesia. Remember that, in fact, you did not guess. Remember how, century after century, the world changed in ways you did not guess.Maybe then you will be less shocked by what happens next.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future,” -105

For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.

Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.

Israelmore Ayivor

Cry when you must. It relieves the soul of all pain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In a fraction of a moment we fall in love, we break up, we live out a love story that lasts until the end of time. We are soulmates, we are adversaries, we are everything. We are nothing. We are at our fullest potential of every possibility. We are supposed to cross paths for one reason or another. Sometimes we don’t know the reason until it’s far behind us.

If you see those pretty thingsthat nature likes to showRemember all those seals that singAnd leave them there to grow.

Stephen Cosgrove

Be thankful to those painful moments of your life, because that has what shaped you to become who you are now.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

How you ever gonna reach the starsIf you never get off the ground?

Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to ‘be strong’. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.

Juliet Marillier

So when you're coldFrom the inside outAnd don't know what to do,Remember love and friendship, And warmth will come to you.

Stephen Cosgrove

Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you continually engaged in educating yourself, undertaking and fulfilling your responsibility and learned never to give up regardless of your circumstances

So many people are afraid of the ending of their life on earth. Then there are others who are afraid of not being able to leave after their bodies have long failed them. There's nothing at all to be afraid of. Death is the last lesson in the school of life. It is the final stage of growth. Death is the one event that is designed to remove all of your remaining fears. Someday you will find that the things you were most afraid of, like death, were only illusions.

It is better to be respected by few than to be feared by all

mng

The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom.

RSD

Thirty-four, still undecided on a name, sat practicing his Realm tongue with Draker, although much of the lesson seemed to consist of the correct use of profanity. "No," the big man shook his shaggy head. "Pig-fucker not fuck-pigger.

The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom.

RSD

Thirty-four, still undecided on a name, sat practicing his Realm tongue with Draker, although much of the lesson seemed to consist of the correct use of profanity. "No," the big man shook his shaggy head. "Pig-fucker not fuck-pigger.

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

Nicholas Sparks

With time we learn that the things we're better off without have the ability to lead us somewhere better than we were before.

Brightness of day always end with the darkness of Night

Listen to the arts of kids, their hands when tied have wings.

Ymatruz

If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now.

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

Israelmore Ayivor

REMEMBERwhenever wherever you are.you're representing someone or something

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

Only Give up,When Your Hearts Gives up.(Don't Give up, till your Last Breath)

This year has taught me the simple craft of belief. I believe in the things I’ve nurtured and built this year. Slowly but carefully. Such as understanding, knowledge, passion, strength; the hundreds of songs I’ve written, the 365 poems, the books I’ve read and the miles I’ve run. The resolution to breathe, to meditate, to not harm my mind or body even when I’ve felt like it.

Charlotte Eriksson

Learn more about the character traits you have and those you want to develop

I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD.

Genereux Philip

Mistakes aren’t mistakes they are lessons!

Israelmore Ayivor

Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.

Anonymous

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding..

Just please understand that everyone is going through a rough time as well. Even if they are hiding behind money or a simple smile. We are all continuously stumbling as we go about our lives. If we had perfect lives we'd all be perfect people. Only thing we can learn to do is endure or we will not be happy and happiness is the closest thing to perfect.

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had seemed horrible when it was measured by its happiness, but now he seemed to gather strength as he realised that it might be measured by something else. Happiness mattered as little as pain. They came in, both of them, as all the other details of his life came in, to the elaboration of the design. He seemed for an instant to stand above the accidents of his existence, and he felt that they could not affect him again as they had done before. Whatever happened to him now would be one more motive to add to the complexity of the pattern, and when the end approached he would rejoice in its completion. It would be a work of art, and it would be none the less beautiful because he alone knew of its existence, and with his death it would at once cease to be.

W Somerset Maugham

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.

When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view.

Toba Beta

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.

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.

How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows

Great losses are great lessons.

As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind,Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find

Stephen Cosgrove

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.