Life Lessons Wisdom Quotes

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone. ~ Robin Williams

One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return. ~ Marcella Purnama

So I'm beginning to think that when I'm fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety years old I still won't be any closer to being wise and knowledgeable. Perhaps people on their deathbeds, who have had long, long lives, seen it all, travelled the world, have had kids, been through their own personal traumas, beaten their demons and learned the harsh lessons of life will be thinking : God, people in heaven must really know it all. ~ Cecelia Ahern

Mere shame couldn't, after all, be counted on to provide the escape of death. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Success and accomplishments aren't the golden "good life" goals. Instead, having a good life is simple. For an old man to be happy, he just wants to watch the fireworks with his granddaughter on Chinese New Year's Eve. ~ Marcella Purnama

Never plant a seed if you are not looking forward to the fruit. ~ Shampa Sharma

You cannot receive until you learn to release. ~ Kemi Sogunle

He was elated by his own profundity. It was as if the gods had conspired that he be full of wisdom. ~ Aporva Kala

Dream more.
Learn more.
Work more.
Become more. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause. ~ Kemi Sogunle

Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope. ~ Eugene Uttley

Do the job for the joy of work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads
formed years and miles apart. ~ Gina Greenlee

Step into my shoes follow my journey my mountains my valleys my surprise potholes and if you can keep going the way I keep going perhaps you'll understand my choices & strength. ~ Karen Salmansohn

There is no wealth but life. ~ John Ruskin

The breath of being is been able to share your bread. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wasnt looking for anything when I found you & it somehow made me question what I wanted, was i ready for love? I don't think anyone is ever ready, but when someone makes you feel alive again it's kind of worth the risk ... ~ Nikki Rowe

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant. ~ George Armstrong Custer

At the end of the day, what is life? A beautiful journey. Why must we take it so seriously and not enjoy every moment of it? Why not let any person have his chance in anything he desires? ...Why not vanish the hate and forgive? Why not follow our dreams and make them reality? ~ Maria Karvouni

( ... )- for it does take greatness, I think, to stand resolutely against your own people, especially when you are alone, and especially when you that even history will not be kind to you, since you will have forever given the lie all the claims with which the High and the Mighty will try to exonerate themselves. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Life is a rehearsal. Get dressed and be ready to face it daily. ~ Kemi Sogunle

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. ~ Brian Rathbone

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death? ~ Sorin Cerin

Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit.
Within every problem is an opportunity.
Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts. ~ Napoleon Hill

That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for. ~ Sebastien De Castell

Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with things. Time is precious and once lost cannot be regained. Make every moment count...you never know when your time will be up. ~ Kemi Sogunle

One's own history can be the greatest educator ~ Deborah L. Parker

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous . ~ Tushar Upreti

Don't think needlessly, think wisely, and your thoughts will emit positive vibes through out you, and the Universe. ~ Tania Gardana

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it. ~ H. Rider Haggard

The doors to Wisdom & Glory are never closed, they just favor the undaunted ~ Arjun Pawar

Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things. ~ Edgar H Schein

Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way. ~ Cambria Hebert

To despair over something that has not yet come to pass is to accept that it will. ~ Julius Bailey

Who is the self that you are helping? ~ Muni Natarajan

the source of a river is narrow. If you could jump over it in a twinkle of an eye at the source, be sure to ponder before you jump over it at its mid or its estuary. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's strange how the worst day of your life often starts just like any other. You might even complain very quietly to yourself about its ordinariness. You might with for something more interesting to happen, something to back of your routine, and just when you think you can't bear the monotony any longer, something comes along that shatters your life to such degree. you with with every cell in your body that your day hadn't become so unordinary. ~ Joanna Cannon

For so much of my life I felt hated and judged when, ironically, it was probably because I spent so much of my time hating and judging others. ~ Charlene Carr

Its not about what we take with us when we die,
Its about what we leave behind. ~ Sandesh Hukpachongbang

I may not have all to be happy but I have to be happy with all that I have ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Everyone says they want change. They want their lives to change, they want their nations to change, they want this whole world that we live in to change. And perhaps rightfully so. I respect that. But what everyone forgets is that change entails CHANGE. For anything to change, things must in fact CHANGE! Now, these very same people are hard pressed to make any drastic changes in their own minds and in their own ways and when you cannot make drastic changes in your own mind, you cannot make drastic changes in your community, city, state, nation, this world. Then nothing will ever change. Remember: in order for things to change, they must in fact CHANGE. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Fury reigns down on those who ignore in the wisdom of fear itself. ~ Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Dont look for something that isn't there, because you're never going to find it ~ Jayden P

If I stress about a goal, I won't remember to find the way to get there. ~ Zoltan Andrejkovics

Are you so busy fighting you cannot see your own ship has set sail? ~ Uncle Iroh

To promise is to grant the future, it's a lie waiting to happen ~ A.M.M Alusi

Trouble follows me like a loyal dog. ~ Trel W. Sidoruk

If you put all of your business out on social media don't be surprised when the general public tries to run your life. ~ Germany Kent

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are. ~ Turcois Ominek

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life. ~ Oprah Winfrey

It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered. ~ Emem Uko

Find courage to overcome the circumstance. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only a few moments in life have paved the road we're on. What we choose to do between those moments will ultimately shape our destiny. ~ Charles F. Glassman

It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read. ~ Madame De Stael

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman ... whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them. ~ Betty Smith

The world keeps on spinning, repeating itself over and over until something changes, which it doesn't because we can't. ~ Alice Feeney

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life. ~ Alonzo Mourning

What you can lose is what you really don't need in your life from the first place. ~ Hiroko Sakai

It is my sincerest hope to leave this world in better shape than which I found it. Everyone says that. However the distinction I feel that is necessary to make is. I hope to leave this world better in spite of my departure, not because of it. ~ Kay Whitley

They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come ~ Michael Biondi

Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it. ~ Clark Gable

Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this stark reality called 'life' as a blessing, whereas some foolishly waste it by following fiction and fictitious characters. ~ Henrietta Newton Martin

Even in the darkest of places, there is light. Never lose hope. ~ Melissa Burke

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

Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and give strength to body and soul alike. ~ John Muir

We can transform our lives by renewal of our mind. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore. ~ Andrei Platonov

Life is given to us to be lived...Most of us spend an entire lifetime preparing to live." What is it that you are doing ...LIVING or PREPARING TO LIVE at some point ! Are you waiting for the IF AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS or Are you living NOW ! A thought that changed my life forever !! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned ~ Carrie Underwood

Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention. ~ Sally Koslow

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving. ~ Deb Caletti

Always mistrust these three: a battle that seems won, a chancellor who smiles and a ruler calling you friend."
– Extract from the personal journals of Dread Emperor Terribilis II ~ ErraticErrata

Sometimes we carry mistakes we haven't even made yet. ~ Saahil Prem

Then don't think. Let your heart take control for once. ~ Tabitha G. Kelly

Life is a helluva journey. You face situations. You meet people. You try to understand situations. You try to understand people.
But you will never ever be able to understand people. You will never ever be able to understand why some things happen.

You feel you desperately need someone to support. But you won't find any support. You feel you need an anchor amidst the unpredictably nature of life. But there won't be an anchor. And you will feel your feet are losing their balance. You will feel you are falling down. You will feel the weight of life pulling you down. And you are drowning in the ocean. And you are shouting for help. But nobody can hear you because everybody is busy living their life to listen to you.

You thus you give up on people. You lose faith in people. You lose faith on life.

You just go on living life without feeling anything. You live life in a state of numbness and indifference.

And then one day you look at yourself in the mirror, and you have become a stranger to yourself! ~ Avijeet Das

If life were all sunshine and chocolate, there wouldn't be any saints. ~ Robin Gregory

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~ Jefferson Machamer

Never test good people because they are like diamonds. when you hit them, they will not break but they will only slip away from your life ~ Moywaywa

If you go through life making every decision based on what is
safest, you will look back one day and discover that you have missed out on the best. Allowing fear to run your life will only rob you of your future. ~ Tessa Afshar

I don't deny that impulse drew us together, but while physical gratification began and ended it for you, in making love, dumbo here - - ' she jerked a thumb at her chest ' - was also demonstrating that she cared.'
His tongue moistened his lips. 'You're very up-front, aren't you?'
'You mean none of your other rejects have ever looked you in the eye and complained?' Sian queried. She might have made things easy last night, but she refused to make anything easy for him now. 'I suppose you'd prefer it if I shrugged my shoulders, muttered something about it being nice while it lasted, and filed the experience away under lessons learned? Well, sorry, but for me, and for most women if they're honest, going to bed with someone is a darn sight more complicated than that! ~ Elizabeth Oldfield

For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. He knew he would regret it - in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of pain.

But was a woman's heart any purer, in the end?

That was the final truth I learned. All this time I'd thought myself better than my father, better than all those men who inflicted harm on a thousand innocents in order to punish the one man who had wronged them. I'd thought myself above the cravings that drove him. But I, too, was tainted with them, vengeance encoded into my blood. When the moment came I couldn't resist it, no more than a dog can resist chewing a bone that, splintering, makes his mouth bleed.

Already I was storing these lessons inside me. I would use them over the long years of exile to gain what I wanted, no matter what its price.

But Krishna, the slippery one, the one who had offered me a different solace, Krishna with his disappointed eyes - what was the lesson he'd tried to teach? ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

This was what he stood for: a world where there would be room enough even for such a mass of clumsy and cumbersome freedom. A margin of humanity, of tolerance, where some of life's beauty could take refuge. His eyes narrowed a little, and an ironic, bitter smile came to his lips. I know you all, he thought. Today you say that elephants are archaic and cumbersome, that they interfere with roads and
telegraph poles, and tomorrow you'll begin to say that human rights too are obsolete and cumbersome, that they interfere with progress, and the temptation will be so great to let them fall by the road and not to burden ourselves with that
extra load. And in the end man himself will become in your eyes a clumsy luxury, an archaic survival from the past, and you'll dispense with him too, and the only thing left will be total efficiency and universal slavery and man himself will disappear under the weight of his material achievement. He had learned that much behind the barbed wire of the forced labor camp: it was our education, a lesson be was not prepared to forget. ~ Romain Gary