Quotes About Lessons

reach, that these meditations are now published. It is only by frequent repetition that a child learns its lessons.

It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.

have taught a high school English class for the best part of a decade, and graded homework every night, and woken up early in the morning to plan my lessons, and read and reread Shakespeare, and sat through enough conferences and meetings for even those in Purgatory to envy me.

Everything that happened in the past It was all necessary to bring us to where we are.

They will very probably, by remembring past mistakes, avoid many inconveniencies into which forgetfulness will run you lively ones.

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it

Elmo is telling kids about how great it is to share. Oh, Elmo, you poor, deluded little red fur ball. You don't have a clue, do ya, li'l buddy? Kids are way meaner than Muppets.

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

Tu pasado siempre es tu pasado. Aun si lo olvidas, te recuerda.

Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.

History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. The third time as tourist trap.

there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy—other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington—it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty.

Reality instructors. They want to teach you – to punish you with – the lessons of the Real.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

conclusions:

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.

For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

I looked at him, at his unshaven profile, the wisps of dark hair curling out from under his dark wool hat, the empty coffee cup forgotten in his hand. He was a mass of contradictions. It struck me that I was taking life lessons from a five-six semiretired burglar whose boyfriend, not twentyfour hours earlier, had executed a man against a brick wall. My life, I reflected, was taking some strange turns.

Lenda é uma coisa, realidade é outra. Aquela, nós contamos; esta escondemos. Criamos monstros na esperança de que as lições contidas nas histórias nos sirvam de guia quando nos deparamos com o que há de mais terrível na vida. Inventamos nomes para nossos medos e rezamos para não encontrar nada pior do que aquilo que nós mesmos criamos.

he would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.