Life Lesson Quotes - Page 15

• Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny, Jobs, Work

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• May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Happiness, Learning

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Being Single, Positivity

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

  Frank Sinatra

  Baby, Fear, Lessons

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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• People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Life, People, Lesson Learned

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.75, Penguin

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• In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Order, Important

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• There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

  Maya Angelou

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

  Trip Hawkins

  Motivational, Believe, Nuts

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• Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life Is Short, Things In Life

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• The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

  Peter Shaffer

  Life, People, Inspire

  Peter Shaffer (1982). “The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer”, Random House Value Pub

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• I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Used, Get Over

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Life, Mother, Horny

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• In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Struggle, Return, Facts

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.173, Random House

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• If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way.

  Paul Baloche

  Long, Lessons, Way

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• Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

  Tennessee Williams

  Believe, Memorial, Unanswered Questions

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Change, I Hate You

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 25, 2016

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  The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.401, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  Wallace Stegner

  Broken Heart, Encouragement, Inspirational Life

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.21, Penguin

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• When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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• It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Cute, Truth

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

  Adam Sandler

  Men, Appreciate, Live Your Life

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• If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

  Shel Silverstein

  Thinking, Track, Tough

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• I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

  George Eliot

  Life, Long, Lessons

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.375, George Eliot

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• God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Mistake, Drama, Journey

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• Things don't have to change the world to be important.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview With Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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