Quotes About Lessons

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

What have you learned from those times when life was easy?

It's not what you take, it's what you leave.

My mom used to say sometimes it's actually about the other person and you just happen to be there. Like sometimes the other person needs to learn a lesson or go through an experience, good or bad, and you're just an accessory in some way, like a supporting actor in whatever their scene happens to be.

O que percebo agora é que o que importa não é o que a gente leva, mas o que a gente deixa.

It is my job in life, apparently, to teach gawking, laughing girls lessons about kindness.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school.

We cannot erase the past, but we can adjust our present to the lessons history teaches. Instead of denying or condemning old offenses, we should seek to understand them. We must not allow injustices to recur out of ignorance or wishful thinking.

Too often, however, we tend to read these accounts merely as biblical history without relating them to our lives and our situations. But

My mother used to read me stories. They ended happily, but before that, there was usually sadness or difficulty. I never understood why they ended just when the good part was starting.

Shadow and wind compete for dominance, but both teach important lessons.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

In conclusion," he said, "one may safely say that it would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system which implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse." To fail to learn from such "blunders of the past," he said, was to end up on a course toward "another war and chaos.

one may safely say that it would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system which implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse." To fail to learn from such "blunders of the past," he said, was to end up on a course toward "another war and chaos.

History is full of lessons about the redemption of Lost Causes.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.