Quotes About Lessons

What is teaching but the art of planting and nurturing power?" Lea replied. "Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards.

You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future. Why did I want this fight so badly?

Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them

these things may be little, but they have more impact on our kids than all the lectures about honesty we could ever deliver.

We can hurt a little as we watch them learn life's lessons now, or we can hurt a lot as we watch them grow up to be individuals unable to care for themselves.

Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.

In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.

Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.

We cannot change the history of the past.

Always when I play back my father's voice," Maria says, "it is with a professional rasp, it goes as it lays, don't do it the hard way. My father advised me that life itself was a crap game: it was one of two lessons I learned as a child. The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake. As lessons go those two seem to hold up, but not to apply.

careful aperçus about tennis bums and failed fashion models and Greek shipping heiresses, one of whom taught me a significant lesson (a lesson I could have learned from F. Scott Fitzgerald, but perhaps we all must meet the very rich for ourselves) by asking, when I arrived to interview her in her orchid-filled sitting room on the second day of a paralyzing New York blizzard, whether it was snowing outside.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Life as a single father has taught me many things. Particularly that love only makes everything easier.

Improving your future requires study of the past; we learn traveling through life and especially from mistakes that provide lessons we should not repeat.

Remember: there are no mistakes only lessons love yourself trust your choises and everything is POSSIBLE

Dont worry about hard times, because most of the lessons we have in life come from changes & mistakes.

I am thankful for the difficult people in my life, they have shown me exactly who I do not want to be.

Valentine's Day is the perfect time to reflect on all your horrible dating choices since last Valentine's Day.

One guy can make you hate all the guys, but one man can teach you that not all the guys are not same.