Life-lessons Quotes

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to...

...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shi...

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of ...

If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not...

Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not ol...

He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better ...

There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life,' Eri finally said. 'And one thing always...

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. ...

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among ...

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one wit...

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodo...

Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the s...

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went th...

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t g...

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (190...

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Someday you'll find the placeIt's the place where love takes over hateThen you'll see all the things...

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

One will probably have to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

It’s strange how things happen in life: you live with someone for a long time, you are on the best o...

I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

NEWT: Now there's absolutely nothing for you to worry about.JACOB: Tell me - has anyone ever believe...

Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiti...

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like ...

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only ...

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to ...

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

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 ...