Life Lesson Quotes - Page 5

• Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Thinking, Elements, Lessons

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Life, Lessons, I've Learned

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• Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.

  L. Tom Perry

  Children, Home, Anchors

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• Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

  Shania Twain

  Lessons, Betrayed, Teach

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Important, Be Kind

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• It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Jobs, People, Like You

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.364, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

  Hilary Duff

  People, Upset, Energy

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Letting Go, Memories

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• Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Life, Lessons, Sometimes

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.

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• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Numbers, Forget The Past

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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Children, Book

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Tolls, Remains

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2933, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

  Lena Dunham

  Running, Self Reflection, Situation

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• I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

  Joe Mantegna

  Mean, Trying, Lessons

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• It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

  Michael Caine

  Looks, Lessons

  Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.

  Brian Weiss

  Relationship, Moving On, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Dr. Brian Weiss from Apr 12, 2014

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• I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  People, Perspective, Inspire

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Education, Children

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Brunch, Facts

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.215, Random House

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• I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

  Lena Dunham

  Self Reflection, Talent, Moments

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.176, Random House

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• The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

  Lena Dunham

  Accusing Me, People, Elbows

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.231, Random House

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• The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Book, Writing, Ego

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

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• Patience is the First Lesson.

  Thomas T. Riley

  Life, Learning, Lessons

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• I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Mistake, People, Growing

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• You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Art, Air, Important

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