Life Lesson Quotes

“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”
― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

“If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”
― Germany Kent

“My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.”
― Steve Maraboli

“It is the evening that questions thus from within me.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Cinta yang dicari adalah baik, tetapi cinta yang didapati tanpa dicari adalah lebih baik.”
― Pahrol Mohd Juoi, Tentang Cinta

“My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.”
― Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto

“Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.'
'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side.
'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Isto é, falha-se sempre na realidade aquela vida que se planeou com a imaginação.”
― Eça de Queirós

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!”
― Wolfgang Reiber

“Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Some flowers bloom beneath the biggest blue,

while others prefer the shade;

As is Human Nature.....

Some turn their faces to the sun

while others seek solitude.

But no matter where you wish to stand;

Stand Straight and Stand tall.”
― Michelle Geaney

“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.”
― Josh Billings

“The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“...But something worse can happen to the person who is betrayed."
"What? What could possibly happen to me that is worse?"
The older man stared at the younger, and then said pityingly, "You may learn treachery from it.”
― Jane Jakeman, In the Kingdom of Mists

“A Dog can never brag about catching a cat that waited for him.”
― Tonny K. Brown

“I don't appreciate people when they judge someone with their appearance but not their feelings. It feels like they want to rule that person for rest of their life.”
― Kiran Arshad

“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader

“Life Is, a Rose.”
― Ana Monnar

“..aku sangat diberkati karena bisa menikmati segala cara sederhana yang dia tunjukkan untuk mencintaiku.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.”
― Wil Zeus

“Cuando cae un rayo después de que te hayas ido, o se estrella un avión en el que podrías haber estado. Cuando tu compañero de trabajo enferma y tú no. Creemos que esas cosas son fortuitas, pero hay un equilibrio en todo. Uno se marchita, otro crece. El nacimiento y la muerte forman parte de un todo.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Sometimes, they say , the moon is so buy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always return as do we all.
That’s is what they believe.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Accept no favors, and you’ll never owe any.”
― John Jackson Miller, Bottleneck

“Paper tigers quake with fear when a real tiger enters the room.”
― Beau Johnston

“Never for a moment try to help yourself out of a difficulty by a lie or by a questionable act. Instead, keep in the middle of the high road of truth and integrity, and you will be following the best possible course. In our lives we must never practice deceit or duplicity. Be just and do not fear.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook: Daily Devotional - Promises for Today

“If you hit a plateau, keep pushing. You will make progress and eventually meet your ultimate goal.”
― Saaif Alam

“The weak fight for power.
The strong fight for those who are in power.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“For whatever we fear is our foe.”
― Robert Christopher Lundin Brown, The life of peace 1876 [Leather Bound]

“So I think that what happened on those stone steps was not a loss. I was sorry, but I also learned something essential about how to live. And also, I learned to deeply appreciate the kindness of others.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“If you think only of that one thing, you'll never be able to change it, but if your regrets help you to really learn an essential thing about being human, that experience won't have been wasted on you. Your life afterward, thanks to that, will be better and stronger than it was before.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?