Life Lesson Quotes - Page 6

• So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational Life, Thinking, Meaningless Things

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

  Brandi Carlile

  Divorce, First Love, Loss

  "Bear Creek : A Conversation With Brandi Carlile, Plus Rocket Juice & The Moon by Galen Hawthorne". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 04, 2012.

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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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• Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Mistake, Women

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• Patience is the First Lesson.

  Thomas T. Riley

  Life, Learning, Lessons

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

  Loretta Devine

  Important, Facts, Lessons

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• The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields. they laughed all the time.

  Andrew Shue

  Sports, Fun, Joy

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• I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

  Boomer Esiason

  Age, Lessons, Tough

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• Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it’s probably best not to pick the least popular person, because there is always a chance everyone will shrug and be like, "Um, okay. Hey, anyone want pizza?" and leave.

  Michele Jaffe

  Groups, Hey, Lessons

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• You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

  Selena Gomez

  Suffering, Meltdowns

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• We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Hard Work, Mean, Responsibility

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• Speaking of friends, the best ones always have your back.

  Selena Gomez

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• You look how you look

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Looks, Body Image, Inspirational Celebrity

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• Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

  Selena Gomez

  Childhood, Decision, Define You

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• I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, then that's their opinion.

  Hilary Duff

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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

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• Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Bullfighting, Way, Sun Also Rises

  The Sun Also Rises ch. 2 (1926)

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• I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

  Richelle Mead

  Lessons, Next, Zen Life

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.351, Penguin

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• Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Tough

  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.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

  Lev Grossman

  Wish, Lessons, Teach

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.216, Penguin

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• Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

  Steig Larsson

  Guarantees, Related

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• ...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.

  John Muir

  Song, Flower, Animal

  John Muir (2006). “Our National Parks”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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