Life-lessons Quotes

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and wh...

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this ...

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing n...

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will nev...

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned....

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. Y...

Well,” Harry said, “look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space...

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by...

My friedns, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love ...

Because, from the beginning , God said, 'I'm gonna put this world into your hands. If I run everythi...

Because, from the beginning, God said, 'I'm gonna put this world into your hands. If I run everythin...

My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love ...

So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said. Are you going to tell me? "Yes....

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? B...

He loved to smile. He avoided anger. He was never haunted by "Why am I here?" He knew why he was her...

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of ...

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed q...

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' M...

This is the legend of Cassius Clay, The most beautiful fighter in the world today.He talks a great d...

Diyar-e-Ishq Mein Apna Maqam Paida Kar,Naya Zamana, Naye Subah-o-Sham Paida Kar;Khuda Agar Dil-e-Fit...

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...

Life is a learned skill, but instead of teaching it, our culture force-fills developing minds with l...

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that ...

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches the...

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from so...

Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or w...

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understandin...

I will form good habits and become their slave.

As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh ...

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the mo...

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and ...

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

You see, the catch about portrait painting—I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start...

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the ...

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the ...

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting...

And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?""They were lo...

The battles may last for a long time, perhaps even years. There are powerful forces on both sides, a...

I've been in love before, it's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrende...

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks an...

Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you’ve stopped moving forward, and at t...

I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. A...

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they woul...

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life mig...

But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When so...

… "That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives be...

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he doe...

Sorrow (A Song)To me this world's a dreary blank,All hopes in life are gone and fled,My high strung ...

Alas! this is not what I thought life was.I knew that there were crimes and evil men,Misery and hate...

We look before and after, And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;O...

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...

We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should coun...

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling st...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pl...

As once the winged energy of delightcarried you over childhood's dark abysses,now beyond your own li...

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boar...

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Re...

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling...

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in ...

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary i...

Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rh...

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and...

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

One man gathers what another man spills

One man gathers what another man spills

One man gathers what another man spills

One man gathers what another man spills

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that sh...

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is...

I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But af...

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of esca...

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world ...