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• It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

  Piper Laurie

  Life Changing, Long, Want

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• My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

  Bear Grylls

  Motivational, Education, School

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• Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

  Danielle Steel

  Positive Thinking, Blessing, People

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• What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Eye, Maturity

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• My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

  Rihanna

  Tattoo, Crazy, Lessons

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• For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Blessing, Boredom, Lessons

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• The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

  James Bryce

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took.

  Eva Longoria

  Thinking, Twenties, Lessons

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• I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

  Zac Efron

  Lessons, I've Learned, Valuable

  "Five Questions with Zac Efron". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.

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• God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human experience. And, yes, it does give us clear boundaries of what we should and shouldn't do so we can live our best lives.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Beautiful, Voice, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

  Regina Brett

  Growing, Lessons, Taught

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• This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

  Hayley Williams

  Growing Up, Rock N Roll, Dresses

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• To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.

  Thad Matta

  Country, Winning, League

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• The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Acceptance, Long Distance

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

  Liv Tyler

  Taken, Voice, Lessons

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• The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

  Georg Solti

  Hard Work, Discipline, People

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Fiction, Lessons

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Giving, Age, Lessons

  “Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades” by Elizabeth Whrtzel, www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

  Phil Plait

  Stars, Shining, Forever

  "Death from the Skies!". Book by Phil Plait, 2008.

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• The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jake, Lessons, Inspired

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• In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

  Kenny Chesney

  Years, Happy Times, Lessons

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but a lesson that can be passed on to your kids is Paramount.

  Michael Clayton

  Kids, Sunday, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

  Goose Gossage

  Baseball, Fields, Lessons

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.

  Goose Gossage

  Baseball, Perseverance, Hard Work

  "Rich 'Goose' Gossage". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.

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