Life Lesson Quotes - Page 4

If birds did not believe in their ability to fly, the sky would be empty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

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If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

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Water your dreams with fear, and they will wilt; with doubt, and they will wither; with hope, and they will grow; with faith, and they will flourish.

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At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.

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Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

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If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.

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If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

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A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

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The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.

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Don’t mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Don’t cry over the present, it has no sympathy for you, and I don’t weep the future, it has no mercy on you.

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Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

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If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness.

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The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.

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Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

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Two minds are smarter than one.Two hands are stronger than one.Two hearts are mightier than one.Two souls are greater than one.

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Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

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Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.

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The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.

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Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

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Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

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It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

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If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival.

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It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.

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Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

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Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.

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A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you.

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The distance between two minds is understanding.

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A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.

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If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.

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The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns.

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Do not waste your life away by wishing for days you may not even get to see.

Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end.

When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?

Love knows the way because love is the way.

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Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

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The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.

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If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.

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If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.

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As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.

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Be calm when your wife yells at you, calmer when she chastens you, but be terrified when she ignores you.

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Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

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When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.

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If you are sad, love will make you happy; afraid, love will make you brave; weak, love will make you strong; and broken, love will make you whole.

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Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

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Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.

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Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

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When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.

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The world’s most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.

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Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love gives you billion reasons to rejoice.

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The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.

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Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.

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Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

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See what love sees. Hear what love hears. Say what love says. Do what love does.

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Love is loud; the soul hears it, even if the universe is deaf.

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Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.

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Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.

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Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists.

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Learn a lot. Laugh a lot. Love a lot. Live a lot.

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