Quotes About Lessons

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battle and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

Life is like that, I suppose: always slapping you in the face when you least expect it.

History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions.

the premise is that real people who have been through a challenging experience are extraordinary sources of advice.

Karl Pillemer

Achieving the reconciliation taught her critically important lessons about how to meet her own needs while accepting differences and showing compassion to others.

The most recent global financial crisis reminded the current generation of the lessons that their grandparents had learned in the Great Depression: the self-regulating economy does not always work as well as its proponents would like us to believe.

Calwyn felt suddenly very solemn and serious. Usually during lessons and lectures she felt only a fierce desire to be elsewhere or an irresistible urge to fidget, but now she sat as still as a statue, sensing that what Marna was about to tell her was more important, and certainly more interesting, than herb lore or weaving patterns.

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself.

It's easy to look back and think how we could make only the good things happen to us,' counseled Catherine, still swishing her mop to and fro, spreading dirty water instead of soaking it up. 'But that's not how we become ourselves. You are mad who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Mother is the sacred teacher of this cycle. She passes on her lessons through her body by example, guidance, attitude, energy, vibration.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

From Nic's point of view, her older sister had been a primer on how not to live her life.

The Fall of the House of Usher' is a fair primer on what not to do with children.

She was paying him for his ears and his experience, not for his lessons and he was coming to the conclusion that she was paying him too much, that perhaps he should have been paying her, for he was more her student than she had ever been his.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

Art teaches us the things that reality can't. Teaches us to live with the things that seem beyond endurance. Missed chances. Failed love affairs. Suffering and death—the stuff of actual life.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

The problems of today will be the best memories of tomorrow

the story of Isaac and Rebekah is an account of what was, but not necessarily of what should be for all of God's people.