lessons

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c798bb4	I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.	lessons love waiting patience	Elisabeth Elliot
74cf893	If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.	lessons thoughts life love inspirational perspective self	Nayyirah Waheed
b78b5bb	You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 'She's a child!' shouted Crumley. IT'S EDUCATIONAL. 'What if she cuts herself?' THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.	lessons humour death humor discworld hogfather important-lessons swords	Terry Pratchett
c3759d5	You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.	lessons life inspirational trials trouble	Jonathan Anthony Burkett
218d09b	"It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."	lessons mistakes	Norton Juster
2b45a67	Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.	lessons life	Elizabeth Gilbert
32b684c	sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.	lessons life	Cecelia Ahern
93a6835	What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.	lessons school	Terry Tempest Williams
9210866	Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.	harry-potter lessons morals	John Granger
3a2d0be	I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.	lessons loss past	Cormac McCarthy
35fa7dd	Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!	lessons mistakes	James Fenimore Cooper
8e70320	For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive.	lessons inspiration hope life wisdom patchett crossroads	Ann Patchett
3a1b3df	I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies	lessons life lit restless quotes movies	Sinclair Lewis
e35069a	She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he'd be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He'd lie there for a few minutes. He'd be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He'd brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park. But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.	lies lessons subdue fragile	Francine Pascal
d839fda	That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.	time lessons future past philosophy decisions	James A. Owen
a7a30ab	An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier.	lessons dark humor life series animated cat-haee cathaee children-s-books dark-humor edward-gorey enhanced-epub3 general-fiction graphic-novel haee illustrated-books middlings pets quirky quirky-characters r-s-vern shel-silverstein tim-burton trilogy young-adults	R.S. Vern
6cbe1e8	Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.	lessons inspiration inspirational inferiority inferiority-complex	Maria Shriver
f5e1766	"I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth. "I gave up," I whispered. "Don't give up," she whispered back."	lessons quotes	Mitch Albom
afb6ce4	Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility--a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.	lessons learning inspirational-quotes humility	Maria Shriver
859d16e	"Minigolf," she said with stone seriousness, "is a metaphor for life."	metaphor lessons life	Emily Giffin All We Ever Wanted
4f4051e	Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l'arn its lessons.	lessons providence	James Fenimore Cooper

c798bb4

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

lessons love waiting patience

Elisabeth Elliot

74cf893

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

lessons thoughts life love inspirational perspective self

Nayyirah Waheed

b78b5bb

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 'She's a child!' shouted Crumley. IT'S EDUCATIONAL. 'What if she cuts herself?' THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

lessons humour death humor discworld hogfather important-lessons swords

Terry Pratchett

c3759d5

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

lessons life inspirational trials trouble

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

218d09b

"It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

lessons mistakes

Norton Juster

2b45a67

Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.

lessons life

Elizabeth Gilbert

32b684c

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

lessons life

Cecelia Ahern

93a6835

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

lessons school

Terry Tempest Williams

9210866

Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.

harry-potter lessons morals

John Granger

3a2d0be

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

lessons loss past

Cormac McCarthy

35fa7dd

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

lessons mistakes

James Fenimore Cooper

8e70320

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive.

lessons inspiration hope life wisdom patchett crossroads

Ann Patchett

3a1b3df

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

lessons life lit restless quotes movies

Sinclair Lewis

e35069a

She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he'd be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He'd lie there for a few minutes. He'd be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He'd brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park. But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.

lies lessons subdue fragile

Francine Pascal

d839fda

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

time lessons future past philosophy decisions

James A. Owen

a7a30ab

An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier.

lessons dark humor life series animated cat-haee cathaee children-s-books dark-humor edward-gorey enhanced-epub3 general-fiction graphic-novel haee illustrated-books middlings pets quirky quirky-characters r-s-vern shel-silverstein tim-burton trilogy young-adults

R.S. Vern

6cbe1e8

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

lessons inspiration inspirational inferiority inferiority-complex

Maria Shriver

f5e1766

"I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth. "I gave up," I whispered. "Don't give up," she whispered back."

lessons quotes

Mitch Albom

afb6ce4

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility--a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

lessons learning inspirational-quotes humility

Maria Shriver

859d16e

"Minigolf," she said with stone seriousness, "is a metaphor for life."

metaphor lessons life

Emily Giffin All We Ever Wanted

4f4051e

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l'arn its lessons.

lessons providence

James Fenimore Cooper