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2270eeb You see, the catch about portrait painting-- I've looked into the thing a bit-- is that you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie. life-lessons P.G. Wodehouse
1f21f49 Que la vida es inmortal mientras se vive, mientras se esta con vida. Que la inmortalidad no es una cuestion de mas o menos tiempo, que no es una cuestion de inmortalidad, que es una cuestion de otra cosa que permanece ignorada. Que es tan falso decir que carece de principio y de fin como decir que empieza y termina en la vida del alma desde el momento en que participa del alma y de la prosecucion del viento. Mirad las arenas muertas del desierto, el cuerpo muerto de los ninos: la inmortalidad no pasa por ahi, se detiene y los esquiva. life-lessons Marguerite Duras
b01f610 l'Hlm lmyt@ twSl t`fWnh fyn , wfsd jwn klh dreams life-lessons novel Paulo Coelho
1956874 Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get. can-get death grab jealous life life-lessons possessive tiger zoo Yann Martel
313a338 NEWT: Now there's absolutely nothing for you to worry about. JACOB: Tell me - has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry? NEWT: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice. life-lessons one-to-remember J.K. Rowling
ce30c13 lys hnk shy ymknk qwlh ltj`l shkhSan m ytwqf `n lsh`wr bl'lm . ffy nSf lmrt , 'sh`r wHsb 'nny yjb 'n 'khbrhm lHqyq@ . w'n 'qwl : swf tsh`rwn lmd@ thlth@ 'shhr bshkl 'sw' mm sh`rtm bh fy Hytkm , wswf tkfHwn qdr stT`tkm , wb`d sn@ 'shhr l ykwn l'lm bdhlk lsw , wlknh l yzl yw'lm 'kthr mm tZnwn , Ht~ b`d snwt , stbqwn tjdwn 'nfskm tfkrwn blshkhS ldhy fqdtmwh , wtHznwn bsh'n dhlk , wstbqwn tftqdwnh Twl lwqt life-lessons miss novel pain Nicholas Sparks
040058f And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned. desires intentions life-lessons Jess Walter
0345088 Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on. god life-lessons Paulo Coelho
380b7b5 In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting. growing-up life-lessons wishful-thinking Cormac McCarthy
568dedd She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~ life-lessons motherhood mothering Susan Wiggs
66331b0 ... the only thing that makes life worthwhile is loving orher people and being loved by them. - Pia Obrian life life-lessons love loving Susan Mallery
30f7966 Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left. life-lessons Yann Martel
61c1aba Od svega sto ima i jeste,ja sam hteo da napravim sredstvo kojim bih savladao i osvojio svet, a sada je taj svet od mene nacinio svoje sredstvo. life-lessons Ivo Andrić
4c7e5e0 We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we're wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned. life-lessons living purpose purposeful-living wisdom Michael Cunningham
7c9082f In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thing like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. life-lessons people stress world Emma Donoghue
280c6fa One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream. life life-lessons patronizing pet-peeves teenagers Marisha Pessl
2d4232e In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen. family-dynamics irish-immigrant irish-literature irish-memoir life-lessons multiculturalism Greg McVicker
c960664 You can take Lucas to watch football when he's older,' she once told me. Ah, the rheumy-eyed grandpa on the terraces inducting the lad into the mysteries of soccer: how to loathe people wearing different coloured shirts, how to feign injury, how to blow your snot on to the pitch - See, son, you press hard on one nostril to close it, and explode the green stuff out of the other. How to be vain and overpaid and have your best years behind you before you've even understood what life's about. Oh yes, I look forward to taking Lucas to the football. life-lessons Julian Barnes
6d8f0a8 ?Tienes idea de cuantas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lograramos la primera idea de que hay mas en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? !Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil! Y luego cien vidas mas hasta que empezaramos a aprender que hay algo llamado perfeccion, y otras cien para comprender que la meta de la vida es encontrar esa perfeccion y reflejarla. life-lessons Richard Bach
f989f09 There are those among us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one foot at a time, and seek to amend their breaches. That is the way of the brave. chloe-neill gabriel-keene life life-lesson life-lessons perseverance perspective Chloe Neill
3641a33 ... one can't live without falling now and again. life life-lessons Elizabeth Hoyt
e488104 You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential. life-lessons potential self-actualization Michael J Gelb
fdd7693 Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back. beat-generation life-lessons road-trip Jack Kerouac
f6edd0b I'm alone in the sky where there's nothing to lose The Sun's not eternal That's why there's the blues Majestical jailhouse our Joy's in the Cage Hearts full of hatred will outlast my old age ginsberg life-lessons political Allen Ginsberg
a042c8c Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour. innocence life-lessons Hilary Mantel
aca6ea1 How long does it take to see something, to know someone? If you put in years, you realize how little you grasped at the start, even when you thought you knew. We move through life mostly not seeing what is around us, not knowing who is around us, not understanding the forces at play, not understanding ourselves. Unless we stay with it, and maybe this is a movie about staying with it. life-lessons movies understanding Rebecca Solnit
7133c4d I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up. life-lessons Fannie Flagg
c3f86bc It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her. fairness life life-lessons mystery Susan Wiggs
76ab5d2 Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open. life-lessons wisdom Margaret George
e939939 Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? life life-lessons philosphy power thought Carlos Castaneda
6c977cb Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. life-lessons winning-and-losing Robert T. Kiyosaki
3140bb9 Art is rooted in joy. life-lessons Yann Martel
7b5d544 We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave? life-lessons George S. Clason
409547d Fair and unfair are for children fairness life-lessons maturity reality Michelle Lovric
8f45b5e "They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! "Love one another"__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what shall I do?" death-of-a-loved-one life-lessons love regret Fyodor Dostoyevsky
72584df Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time. life-lessons perspective time Betty Smith
4167e82 Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose. life-lessons loneliness wisdom Kate Horsley
7c4f66d You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. black-power blackness inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-lessons life-lessons-quotes living living-life living-now people-of-color strength Ta-Nehisi Coates
8613d0f ...you play the instrument you have. life-lessons Ursula K. Le Guin
f3a15ba Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was...what he could do. life-lessons Piers Anthony
8619e27 Theft is the one unforgivable sin, the one common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched then stealing. life-lessons Khaled Hosseini
60be103 Life is, most of all, about love - follow your heart, live out your dreams, smile, be happy, see the good in everyone you meet and rise above those who try to make you feel low. Fill your heart and fill your soul - love, no matter what, is always the answer. importance-of-love life-lessons live-your-dreams love-yourself self-confidence Emma Heatherington
08d9a93 It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone. growing-up knowledge life-lessons maturity old-age pain parenthood parenting wisdom J. Courtney Sullivan
8030a68 And there was always the bend in the road! inspirational life-lessons L.M. Montgomery
f77f061 "People realize that a life that had seemed enjoyable (travel, social life, romance) and fulfilling (work) was actually empty and meaningless. So they urge you to join the child-rearing party: they want you to share the riches, the pleasures, the joys. Or so they claim. I suspect that hey just want to share and spread the misery. (The knowledge that someone is at liberty or has escaped makes the pain of incarceration doubly hard to bear). Of all the arguments for having children, the suggestion that it gives life 'meaning' is the one to which I am most hostile--apart from all the others" (201)." humor life-lessons Geoff Dyer
abfe21b People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. life life-lessons Sue Monk Kidd
660a422 In high school, in college, she was encouraged again and again to find her passion-a reason to get out of bed and breathe. In her experience, few people ever found that raison d'etre. What teachers and professors never told her was about the dark side of finding your purpose. The part where it consumes you. Where it becomes a destroyer of relationship and happiness. And still, she wouldn't trade it. This is the only person she knows how to be. life-lessons passions purpose Blake Crouch
8fe830c "In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete. When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by the Desana hunters when they die. Were there no men dying, there would be no birds or fish being born. I like this idea. Morrie likes it, too. The closer he gets to goodbye, the more he seems to feel we are all creatures in the same forest. What we take, we must replenish. "It's only fair," he says." inspiration life life-lessons truths Mitch Albom
dbe9938 La ventaja competitiva de una sociedad no vendra de lo bien que se ensene en sus escuelas la multiplicacion y las tablas periodicas, sino de lo bien que se sepa estimular la imaginacion y la creatividad. life-lessons science Walter Isaacson
ec8250b "This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather it's all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. It's the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes we found ourselves in. Yet there are so many others who are not alive today, and I feel obligated in not allowing the lessons of their mistakes to lie in the grave with them. It was the United States Senator, Al Franken, who stated, "Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." I'm revealing all of those mistakes and more, sadly a lot of them are fatal. In an attempt to have these real life lessons obtained in blood, prevent the blood-shedding of so many others. These stories are ones that young people can understand and identify with. While at the same time empowering them, to make better decisions about their choice of friends, the proper use of their time and how one wrong move can be fatal. I guess the major question that we all have to ask ourselves at the end of the day would be: how could I and so many others have been prevented from becoming monsters? You be the judge. I now extend my hand to you, and personally invite you to take a journey with me into the heartlands of innocence to menacing, from a youngster to a monster, and the making of a predator. I will safely walk you down the deserted and darkened street corners which were once my world of crime, gang violence and senseless murders. It's a different world unto itself, one which could only be observed up close by invitation only. Together we will learn the motivation behind hard-core gangsters, and explore the minds of cold-blooded murderers. You will discover the way they think about their own lives, and why they are so remorseless about the taking of another's life. So, if you will, please journey with me as we discover together how the fight of our lives were wrapped up in our fathers." anti-social-behaviors at-risk-youth bloodshed choices cold-blooded crime-prevention darkness deserted die-hard-gangsters fatherhood friendships generation-x harden-criminals inner-city life-lessons menacing mistakes monsters rebelling remorseless senseless-murders social-ills social-science under-ground-world Drexel Deal
c1fc6f5 Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered. humour life-lessons philosophy Alexander McCall Smith
1d957b3 'The image of you putting a condom on a banana to teach me about gay sex is forever ingrained in my head.' 'Well, a good father teaches his son about the facts of life.' 'You didn't have to put the banana in your mouth,' I reminded him. He grinned without looking up. 'Bet that kept you from performing fellatio for quite a while.' 'Longer than you'll know.' life-lessons the-birds-and-the-bees T.J. Klune
0c14fae "Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting. "For what?" he whispers. " For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million." crying emotional growing-up jonah katie-mcgarry life-lessons stella touching-moments young-adult Katie McGarry
233a9e8 Old age had distilled her down to her essence. elderly essence humanity life life-lessons old-age old-people wisdom womanhood J. Courtney Sullivan
ed9c075 I don't want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go christ life-lessons love Flannery O'Connor
50d991e My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up. life life-lessons trying-hard winning Robyn Carr
870b0b3 "So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said. Are you going to tell me? "Yes. Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be grateful." That's it? "For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. "That's it." be-satisfied life-lessons spiritual-growth Mitch Albom
6a1b213 "The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, life-lessons pain Ursula K. Le Guin
51fe3e5 Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life. big-picture choice choices choices-and-consequences decisions life life-lessons maturation wisdom J. Courtney Sullivan
1db6b19 When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week. coping food life life-lessons worry Robin McKinley
192219e But I'll tell you a secret. You know what boys like? A woman who's happy with herself. Who's not making herself miserable with the Jane Fonda videotapes and complaining all the time about whether this part or that one's too big. And you know what else they like? She leaned in close, whispering into her granddaughter's ear. Good food. life-lessons plus-size self-confidence Jennifer Weiner
87675d9 If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true. Well...I guess the people who work hard whose dreams come true don't get to write books about it, so we never really find out what happens to them. So... If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true. humor life-lessons Mindy Kaling
e946bc0 Al dia de hoy, al comprender la habilidad del mundo para presionarme hasta que haga lo que no hago, he madurado. Con que actitud desempeno mi papel, eso depende unicamente de mi. life-lessons Sena Jeter Naslund
8a36c23 Work hard. Work dirty. Choose your favourite spade and dig a small, deep hole; located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra. Then bury your cellphone and then find a hobby. Actually, 'hobby' is not a weighty enough word to represent what I am trying to get across. Let's use 'discipline' instead. If you engage in a discipline or do something with your hands, instead of kill time on your phone device, then you have something to show for your time when you're done. Cook, play music, sew, carve, shit - bedazzle! Or, maybe not bedazzle... The arrhythmic is quite simple, instead of playing draw something, fucking draw something! Take the cleverness you apply to words with friends and utilise it to make some kick ass cornbread, corn with friends - try that game. I'm here to tell you that we've been duped on a societal level. My favourite writer, Wendell Berry writes on this topic with great eloquence, he posits that we've been sold a bill of goods claiming that work is bad. That sweating and working especially if soil or saw dust is involved are beneath us. Our population especially the urbanites, has largely forgotten that working at a labour that one loves is actually a privilege. hobby inspirational-quotes life life-lessons overcome-depression work-hard Nick Offerman
24d2cee Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have. inspiration inspirational life life-lessons richard-clark sylvain-reynard Sylvain Reynard
f1945f2 There are those amongst us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one foot at a time, and seek to amend their breaches. That is the way of the brave. life-lessons magic Chloe Neill
a842eca But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that's not easy. gamer-girl life-lessons maddy mari-mancusi mom mother-daughter-talk Mari Mancusi
97c10a7 Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol. god life-lessons pain simple-truths symbolism Brandi L. Bates
f7504e8 No importa la fe que ofrece determinado movimiento, sino la esperanza que propone hope life-lessons Umberto Eco
4f11872 Welcher Vater, welcher Lehrer hat ihn davor schutzen konnen, selbst das Leben zu leben, selbst sich mit dem Leben zu beschmutzen, selbst Schuld auf sich zu laden, selbst den bitteren Trank zu trinken, selber seinen Weg zu finden? Glaubst du denn, Lieber, dieser Weg bleibe irgend jemandem vielleicht erspart? Vielleicht deinem Sohnchen, weil du es liebst, weil du ihm gern Leid und Schmerz und Enttauschung ersparen mochtest? Aaber auch wenn du zehnmal fur ihn sturbest, wurdest du ihm nicht den kleinsten Teil seines Schicksals damit abnehmen konnen. life-lessons Hermann Hesse
1b28de0 Me reconcilie conmigo mismo, me acepte con un poco de benevolencia y entonces tuve mi primer atisbo de paz. Creo que ese fue el instante preciso en que tome conciencia de quien soy en realidad y me senti por fin en control de mi destino inspirational-attitude life-lessons peaceful Isabel Allende
c54ad9f The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious. inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-lessons living people-of-color security soul soul-searching spirit survival surviving-life thoughtful thoughts wisdom wise-words Ta-Nehisi Coates
1eb7e6a I prepared to get out of bed, tossing the covers aside, the sheets dank-smelling, gray from my body. I wondered how long it had been since I'd changed them. And then I wondered how often you were supposed to change them. These were the kinds of things you didn't learn. I changed bedclothes after sex, now, finally, and that I only learned a few years ago from a movie on TV: Glenn Close, some thriller, and she'd just had sex and is changing the sheets and I can't remember the rest, because all I was thinking was: Oh, I guess people change sheets after they have sex. It made sense, but I'd never thought of it. I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. life-lessons neglect Gillian Flynn
dedfde7 Prenditi tutto il tempo, ma non lasciare che il tempo si prenda tutto. life-lessons Massimo Gramellini
012cfdf I will form good habits and become their slave. life-lessons Og Mandino
f44b203 Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good. inspirational life-lessons Joyce Meyer
b9d68a5 Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas? achievement-attitude adversity bravery courage growth humor inspiration irony life-lessons motivation strength success wisdom Brandi L. Bates
5b56896 His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea... affluence albert-einstein-life-quotes brandi-bates life life-lessons life-philosophy love-quotes motivation opulence soledad-francis success truth-to-power wealth wisdom Brandi L. Bates
13d0e7f [Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor things grow stronger, the danger posed by the main thing is contained; then climbing higher in the minor things means advancing in the main thing. ascetics friedrich-nietzsche life-lessons life-philosophy nietzsche Peter Sloterdijk
240c173 Wenn jemand sucht, dann geschieht es leicht, dass sein Auge nur noch das Ding sieht, das er sucht, dass er nicht zu finden, nichts in sich einzulassen vermag, weil er nur immer an das Gesuchte denkt, weil er ein Ziel hat, weil er vom Ziel besessen ist. Suchen heisst: ein Ziel haben. Finden aber heisst: frei sein, offen stehen, kein Ziel haben. Du, Ehrwurdiger, bist vielleicht in der Tat ein Sucher, denn, deinem Ziel nachstrebend, siehst du manches nicht, was nah vor deinen Augen steht. life-lessons Hermann Hesse
657edef "He loved to smile. He avoided anger. He was never haunted by "Why am I here?" He knew why he was here, he said: to give to others, to celebrate God, and to enjoy and honour the world he was put in. His morning prayers began with "Thank you, Lord, for returning my soul to me." When you start that way, the rest of the day is a bonus." life-lessons motivational spiritual-growth Mitch Albom
dfe5858 "My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete." life-lessons motivational put-in-your-best-foot-in-life Mitch Albom
15ca045 It wasn't meant to be. Or maybe it was meant not to be. life-lessons life-quotes Ned Vizzini
5b00a23 Every big dream starts small. life-lessons Robin S. Sharma
857366b If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition. fear life-lessons lonely Barry Eisler
eb95a0b Death catches everyone eventually, and I had never harbored any illusions about its ability to catch me. That it had hesitated so long to do so seemed born more of a desire to mock me than of any real inclination to wait. Death had tired of that game, and had finally moved in to collect what we all owe. full-circle life-lessons Barry Eisler
801ada4 The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. life-lessons Carlos Ruiz Zafón
eb2e08f Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man? death jewish-identity life-lessons spirituality time Chaim Potok
2043e7f Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precarously and perfectly it all hangs together. life-lessons Blake Crouch
92d2ccf Everyone dies, Dwahvel [...] It is how one lives that matters. -Artemis Entreri life life-lessons R.A. Salvatore
1dcdd83 She wasn't sure what she wanted to do, except that she knew that if she fooled around for long enough, without fretting, or nagging herself, she'd find out. knowledge life-lessons mary-malone philosophy Philip Pullman
ae12650 cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life. cause cause-and-effect cliche effect life life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes result Robin Wasserman
52f2c30 En el futuro corre, como un rio nuestro destino, segun lo dibujamos aqui abajo. En el futuro esta todo, porque todo es posible. Alli usted murio la semana pasada y alli esta viviendo para siempre. life-lessons Adolfo Bioy Casares
3bf8a21 La mayor locura que puede hacer un hombre en esta vida es dejarse morir don-quijote life-lessons vida Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
9958679 Farkli hisseden, farkli hassasiyetlere sahip ve farkindaligi guclenmis baska bir insan haline geldigimi biliyorum. Daha iyi bir insan oldugumu iddia edecek cesaretim yok elbette, ama daha mutlu bir insan oldugumu biliyorum, cunku o buz gibi donuk hayatim icin yeni bir anlam buldum, yasamin kendisinden baska bir sozcukle aciklayamayacagim bir anlam. Ait oldugum kesimin normlarini ve kaliplarini bos buldugum icin artik ne kendimden ne de baskalarindan utaniyorum. Onur, suc, gunah gibi kavramlar bir anda soguk, metalsi bir tini kazandi, bunlari dehsete kapilmadan telaffuz edemiyorum artik. guilt happiness honour life life-lessons sin Stefan Zweig
a7565b7 Don't let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions. life-lessons words-of-wisdom Christopher Paolini
015a284 I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy responsibility Christopher Paolini
ab92838 It's like you get started in one direction and pick up speed, and you may forget where you're going and why,but the momentum takes you there anyway. Only, you find out when you arrive that it isn't where you wanted to be. life-lessons Barbara Delinsky
353338b It turns out the mark of a happy life isn't staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It's knowing you're strong. happy-life life-lessons Robyn Carr
d1b541c It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. leadership life-lessons Robin Sharma
4308aef Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today. life-lessons live-in-the-present present Sean Patrick Brennan
ae29116 Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened knowledge life-lessons Ashley Gardner
38a27e5 Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime. inspirational-quotes laurie-nadel laurie-nadel-quotes life-lessons life-quotes quote-about-life quote-of-the-day quote-of-the-week quotes-twitter wayne-dyer Laurie Nadel
7132078 Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but they also help shape and mold our character. Therefore, when we don't take our time to communicate with our kids, then we rob them of critical life lessons that we and our forefathers learn the hard way - lessons that they would needlessly have to learn through trial and error themselves. family-conversations guidance life-antidotes life-lessons parenting pep-talk proven-solutions real-life real-talk storytelling talking-with-children teachable-moments trial-and-error warnings Drexel Deal
9d85e1d "Well," Harry said, "look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think, What a strange, alien object this is, let's explore it. Suppose you opened it up and crawled inside. You would find it very interesting in there, with lots of huge things to puzzle over. But eventually you might climb into one of the fuel cells, and the hydrogen would kill you. intelligence life-lessons misapprehension philosophy Michael Crichton
9a3d7f7 I've had my world totally tipped upside down - my whole present and future ripped apart, and I need to know that when I manage to tip it back up the right way again, I put everything back in the proper place this time, which is not necessarily going to be the same place. life-lessons transformation Emma Heatherington
2c1de46 We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. life-lessons Mitch Albom
7f3230d gr chh gwnh mrdn r yd bgyry , chh gwnh zystn r nyz fr khwhy grft. life-and-death life-lessons Mitch Albom
c6ed6f9 But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying? 'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.' And facing death changes all that? 'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.' He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live. dying life-lessons Mitch Albom
27740eb Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives inspirational life-lessons philosophy-of-life Mitch Albom
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