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• The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.

  Douglas Bloch

  Dream, Way, Sound

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• I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way.

  Jim Abbott

  Sports, Baseball, Kids

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• Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Moving, Somewhere Else

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• Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

  Brian Tracy

  Needs, Indispensable, Prerequisites

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jun 03, 2013

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• The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Wind, Stupidity

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• Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Dream, Song

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Simplicity, Elements

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1659, Delphi Classics

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• The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Nature, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “Nature: An Essay ; And, Lectures on the Times”, p.53

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Dirty, Past

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• If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Life, Jobs, Husband

  "Rich Dad Poor Dad". Book by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter, 1997.

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• Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Change, Success, Time

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• Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Christian, Pain, Past

  "Robert Elsmere", Chapter XXVII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45, 1922.

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• As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

  Henry Adams

  Play, History, Chinese

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.328, Harvard University Press

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• How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Disappointment, Giving, Mind

  Sir Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, William C. Barker (1856). “First Footsteps in East Africa: Or, An Exploration of Harar”, p.364

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• The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Practice, People, Good Man

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• There is an education of the mind
  Which all require and parents only start.
  But there is training of a nobler kind
  And that's the education of the heart.
  Lessons that are most difficult to give
  Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

  Edgar Guest

  Education, Heart, Giving

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• We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Ignorance, Knowledge

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Communication, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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• If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

  H. G. Wells

  Fashion, Educational, Moving

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• The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

  Louise Hay

  Forgiving, Teach, Hardest

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• My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Powerful, Life Lesson, Self

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• Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

  James A. Murphy III

  Forgiveness, Moving, Forgiving

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• If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Failure, Lessons To Be Learned, Doe

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• Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Men, Reality

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• If there was one lesson to be drawn from Bush's appearance (on 'Meet the Press') it's that he doesn't have to be forthcoming or honest. And he's the first to tell you why. (Bush:) 'I'm a war president.' He added: 'I guess I should have told you that back in 2000.'

  Jon Stewart

  War, Should Have, President

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