Life-lessons Quotes

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where ...

Be bold. But not bold, be fucking bold.

Warden had a theory about women: For years he had been asking them to sleep with him, the ones that ...

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memo...

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduc...

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she suppo...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the ...

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to...

Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create ...

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: Y...

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and ju...

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't...

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right....

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone...

. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live...

... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyr...

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says.The sky is like a monochromatic contemporar...

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever ha...

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(...

Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the m...

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and ch...

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy ...

There is no wealth but life.

...and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath.

I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to ...

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you ...

In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world

Learning After some time, you learn the subtle difference betweenholding a handand imprisoning a sou...

Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, ...

You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelih...

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that ...

Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever bloss...

But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past ...

Because who wants to Fast Forward anyway? You might miss some of the good parts.

What with your phone and the Xbox and the taxi TV and that music player you wear on your arm and the...

At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and...

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time ...

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its...

The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry a...

[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hungerI was just like you when I was young...

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while...

Life isn't something you possess, it's something you take part in.

Life isn't something you possess, it's something you take part in.

Life isn't something you possess, it's something you take part in.

Life isn't something you possess, it's something you take part in.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions t...

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude w...

Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer an...

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling...

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life giv...

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning w...

In the end, we'll all become stories

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

Every war is the war for whoever's lived through it.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If ...

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get a...

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...