Life Lessons Quotes

Be careful because brazen behavior and a powerful mind can hide a delicate heart.

~ Imania Margria

Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is a difference between how you live your life, and what you do with your life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

~ Lev Grossman

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

~ Plato

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

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

~ Douglas Coupland

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil. And you can't be birthed again until you've died.

~ Kelly Cutrone

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

~ Anonymous

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

First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.

~ Christopher Paolini

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

~ Paulo Coelho

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.

~ Santosh Kalwar

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

~ Erol Ozan

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

~ Jennifer Brown

Give out what you most want to come back.

~ Robin S. Sharma

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

~ Joe Hill

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

~ Paulo Coelho

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

~ Thomas Hobbes

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

~ Pittacus Lore

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

~ Paulo Coelho

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.

~ Jonas Jonasson

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

~ Steve Maraboli

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

~ Jennifer Egan

Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are

~ Iain S. Thomas

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

~ Mel Brooks

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

~ Kelly Cutrone

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

~ Orson Scott Card

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

~ Aristotle

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

~ Aesop

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

~ Robert Greene

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

~ Stephen King

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

~ Dale Carnegie

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

~ Paulo Coelho

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

~ Vincent Van Gogh