Life-lessons Quotes

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...

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.