Quotes About Lessons

Salem endures not only as a metaphor but as a vaccine and a taunt. It glares at us when fear paralyzes reason, when we overreact or overcorrect, when we hunt down or deliver up the alien or seditious. It endures in its lessons and our language.

We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught

A man's life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one you taught. The third and fourth were the ones you worked. The last was the one that outlived you. That was the winter dog. Cortland's winter dog had no name. He thought of it only as the scarecrow dog…

But I'm going, because all I've ever gotten and all I have now is somehow due to what we did then, and you pay for what you get in this world. Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for . . . and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

In those days I still believed the love of a man for a woman and a woman for a man was stronger than the love of drinkin and hell-raisin—that love would eventually rise to the top like cream in a bottle of milk. I learned better over the next ten years. The world's a sorry schoolroom sometimes, ain't it?

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

be a lessons what have you experienced that not good in your past and make it a starting point to change your life into be a better today than yesterday

Its never the miles of traveling that counts, its what you have done along the way

Every experience has a pattern and sometimes it teaches us through the spirit of patience captured, that there are no coincidences in life.

Some situations feel worst in our life, but they are the best lessons for life.

It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.

Jen Calonita, Broadway Lights

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it

you must never blame other people for what you Going through because it will teach you a lesson and that time you have to be gratefull

Failures are experiences that help you learn

Life tells the most beautiful stories.

God uses the problem in the life of every man for his good

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.