Quotes About Lessons

Good stories teach!

Now, Audrey, to me secret: while I have days that I struggle, some pretty terrible days, it mean that I also have stunning days. I weigh them both on the same side of the scale, lesson you taught. Life is short. Life is fragile. I shall grasp it with both hands and hang on, trying always to find the joy.

Our trials, our troubles, our demons, our angels—we reenact them because these stories explain our lives. Literature's lessons repeat because they echo from deeper places.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life." —Maya Angelou

My ghosts had become my teachers.

Each child has something to teach us, a message that will help to explain why we are here. — from the Talmud

The universe will teach us our lessons with the tickle of a feather or the whomp of a sledgehammer, depending on how open we are to learning the particular lesson. Getting stubborn and defensive invites the sledgehammer; getting open and curious invites the feather.

My husband used to say that scars were like tattoos but with better stories." "I

Ik bezoek het veld waar de Royal New Foundland Regiment vrijwel compleet werd neergemaaid bij een onzinnige aanval, een geval van collectieve zelfmoord waarvan moslimfundamentalisten nog iets zouden kunnen leren.

Where was I?" Kat asked me. "Never mind. Judging by your expression, you're not ready for flirting lessons. I'll just stick with giving you a pick-me-up. Come on. Let's go to Café Bella and drink so many lattes we're peeing coffee for a week.

Resilience engineering tells us that we should routinely inject faults into the system, doing them frequently, to make them less painful.

Like all engineers, she secretly loves hearing disaster stories … as long as she doesn't have the starring role.

Oh well, hindsight always had all the best ideas.

end) CLAUDIA There are definitely a lot of very important lessons to be learned from The War. But I can't think of what they are right now, and I have to go meet Sophie and Carmen at Starbucks in ten minutes to strategize the best way to handle the Jens situation.

One lesson of history is that every gain has its potential loss. The highest human achievements carry the danger of pride, and pride can lead blindly to disaster, just as failure can fortify the determination and so lead slowly towards triumph.

What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

Why was it necessary for the flood to come? Why did the Lord permit the cities of the plains to be destroyed by fire? It was because the people would not take advantage of their opportunities. They were not only wasting their lives here upon the earth but were also bringing into the world another generation which would follow their bad example. . . . The cities of the plains were burned that their wickedness might not continue to jeopardize other communities and children as yet unborn.

there's so goddamn much history, it just can't help repeating itself.

There are so many lessons that need to be experienced before we can walk through that portal to a world where no tears live.

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

The best prophet of the future is the past.