Life Lessons Quotes

When we are able to offer to the other something of ourselves that can engage, nourish or sustain spirit then we most fully speak. Likewise, the forest is a bit more beautiful. The light finds its way in; reaching out to the ground guiding us to a heavenly place.

~ Ishan Khatri

The break of a family is the break of society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nonviolence is a way of life, where the task is to awaken the underlying goodness of every human being.

~ Amit Ray

Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction.

~ Amit Ray

To carry each other’s burdens, we must care for one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If a person is not inspiring you positively. There is no reason for you to be around them. You don't need their negativity in your life. There's already too much in the world. Surround yourself with people who are going to uplift you and encourage you to move forward with your dreams and goals.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Time is valuable in life. You can show someone how much you appreciate them by giving your time. A good amount of time goes by each day. Spending time with the ones you love shows them how much you care.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

In life,You can either play the hand you've been dealt or decide to fold. Just remember that you are not alone in this journey of life. People experience hardships all the time. You learn from those difficult moments and become stronger.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

You never know how strong you are until you've been tested. People will try you on every level. They may think because you're not loud or rude like them that you won't put them in their place. But, push the wrong buttons and you'll soon find out.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Never allow evil to conquer you. But overcome evil with good deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mankind is one human family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Peaceful co-existence is the heart of humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held.

~ Trevor Driggers

We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Exquisite pain. The kind you wanted to feel every day for the rest of your life. It was the pain of finally having something you wanted. Something you’d longed for. Longed for since you had memories. Something life taught you to believe you’d never have. Something, if you lived without it, it left a void in your soul you knew would never be filled. Something, without it, you knew you’d never be whole. It was something you needed. It was as necessary as breath. It was what was required to complete you.

~ Kristen Ashley

I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?

~ Terrence Alonzo Craft

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.

~ Jewel

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

~ Jewel

The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Do not allow the fear of hurting stop you from loving.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell. The power to heal from the pain equips us with the strength to rise up again and move beyond it all. We not only become stronger but wise enough to recognize and handle pain in the future. We however, have to learn to let the brick walls fall down so that we can experience true love once more. We must learn from pain and let it lead us to the most beautiful parts of our journey in life. Only then can our stories become fully complete.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Ego speaks from a place of pride.Judgement comes from a place of pain.Courage speaks from a place of humility.Correction comes from a place of love.Where are you operating from?

~ Kemi Sogunle

When experience is bought by pain, it teaches.

~ Unknown

We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain.

~ Kemi Sogunle

In every situation, may we find the grace of endurance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope makes life worth living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a never-ending process of growth and learning. We can welcome this growth, or choose to reject it. But, the healthy thing to do is welcome it with open arms, no matter how painful or hurtful the lesson may be. Because, if it is in your life, you can be fairly certain that it is there for a reason.We often hear that some of the most significant life change comes about as a result of great pain and suffering. It is comforting to know that on the other side of darkness and despair exists hope, excitement and anticipation for the future and its possibilities.

~ Valerie Rickel

…because it is natural to touch more often the parts that hurt.

~ Seneca

I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.

~ J.d. Salinger

Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.

~ Elizabeth Haynes

Reframing your past painful experiences and seeing them in a humorous light takes away the power and emotional charge attached to the memory of the hurtful event.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

That her own self-deception and self-absorption, her own slavery to the society and family in which she had been brought up, had reduced this blameless man to a weeping wreck struck her as horrific. She saw more clearly than she had ever seen before that she must change, or keep hurting the people who truly loved her.

~ Shamim Sarif

If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.

~ Kemi Sogunle

If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the strength of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your love awakens my spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is soul food.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is a lot like a roller coaster. You have extreme highs and you can have some pretty extreme lows, but the ride is worth it.

~ Teresa Collins

What matters is not how long it takes but the grace of fulfilled dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita