Quotes About Lessons

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Sometimes it took a dog with stinky breath and bad manners to help us see what really counts in life. Despite all his flaws, Marley had given us a gift that no amount of money could buy. He gave us the gift of total, complete love. He taught us how to give it and how to accept it. When you have love, most of the other pieces fall into place.

Because some things should never be forgotten." He smoothed the girl's unruly hair. "Not if we hope to live better lives." *

But childhood was not all good, nor were its lessons. Good came with the bad, as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure; everyone had secrets. What

He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!

You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon --for both sides." -Grand Lord Hilts

Experience is a great teacher.

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.

I'm older than dirt, I've got more scars than Frankenstein, but I've learned a few things along the way.

You're human and human beings make mistakes and act in all kinds of ways we shouldn't.

the way Adrienne's mother had taught her eighty-two years earlier.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

We're never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.

there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.

He was paying the immemorial price of apprenticeship: things concealed, games of trust.

9Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Among the many lessons that emerge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.