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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.
Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.
Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.
The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.
I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.
I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'
Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
When you share your story and become vulnerable, the ripple effect and the people that you can help along the way is a life lesson.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.
Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.
The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.
My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better.
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
It's a life lesson that translates beyond football. You can share these things with your kids: Work hard, do things the right way and you have a chance.
We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.
I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.
It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.