Quotes About Learning Life Lessons

#1. We believe in the good old days; we believe our best is in the past. Our past is our memories, our past is our learnings, our past should stay where it is. And we should let it.

Tony Curl

#2. The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

Jasper Sole

#3. lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. The reason why we are all different is to allow us to; to keep learning about each other so we can keep working with each other and live with one another.

Dee Dee Artner

#6. Breathe in, take what life hands you; hold it, accept it; breathe out, let it go.

Susan Gable

#7. Usually when someone is angry we hear their angry words. Instead, try hearing the unspoken, I am scared, I am frustrated, I am insecure, I am vulnerable, I am threatened.

Charles F. Glassman

#8. 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

#9. If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

Jill D. Block

#10. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder, either.

Shauna Niequist

#11. Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.

Paulo Coelho

#12. Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

Walter Isaacson

#13. Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps

Paula Hawkins

#14. If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Joe Abercrombie

#16. Some things can't be taught; they can only be discovered.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.

Bryant McGill

#18. Life is a learning process.
Learn from your mistakes.
The lessons should motivates you to make better decisions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. Blessed are those who can find light in dark places, courageous enough to feel when it's time to reflect & hopeful enough to believe when all seems impossible. We don't have enough pioneers like this, and I wonder if it's because they were afraid to live and afraid to learn?

Nikki Rowe

#21. You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

John Irving

#22. A wise person makes one error,
and learns ten lessons.
He makes two errors,
and learns twenty lessons.
He makes three errors,
and learns thirty lessons.
He makes few errors,
and learns countless lessons.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.

Amy Carmichael

#24. 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

#25. I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Allen Ginsberg

#26. Keep learning.
Keep growing.
Keep loving.
Keep living.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Life has let me down several times, that I have learnt to cope with my pain in different situations while at the same time, learning through comparing my past problems and the current obstacles am facing.

Auliq Ice

#29. Safety, stability
it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.

Rainbow Rowell

#30. Learn how to learn...then start learning

Munia Khan

#31. I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.

Daniella Alonso

#32. Every lesson is a blessing.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#33. Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination

LDarnell

#34. You don't learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

Lev Grossman

#35. The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice

Agona Apell

#36. That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

Patrick Ness

#37. I believe the difficulty that lies in growth, is the struggle of letting go of all you know to learn about the unknown. When in all actuality the unknown that you're learning about is yourself.

Turcois Ominek

#38. Life is a curriculum unique to every student.

Joyce Rachelle

#39. Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life!

Mark W. Boyer

#40. Experience gives the greatest lessons of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. Life is learning to take God's hand.....and hold on.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#42. Explore the endless possibilities in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#44. When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

Sarah Dessen

#47. Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#48. [T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Sonia Sotomayor

#49. The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#50. I get it! Something painful happens and that hate flares within and sticks around. Hate keeps the pain; forgiveness let's it go. Hate breeds poison, forgiveness breeds peace. When you chain yourself to hate, you chain yourself to pain.

Tony Curl

#51. Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.

S.D. Lawendowski

#52. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!

Alan Rufus

#53. Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#54. I learn by doing ... the same thing over and over and over again countless times.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#55. This place is in my heart, but it can't be my home, not now, maybe not ever ... - Samuel Yates

Amy Harmon

#56. The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#57. It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don't want to be, having trod a path I didn't want to take.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#58. I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

Dean Koontz

#59. By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

John Glenn

#60. There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life ... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#61. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Stella Adler

#62. Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#63. Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are already within us.
Our learning starts as soon as we are born.

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#64. If we fail to learn from our trials and errors then we truly fail.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#65. I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

Nehali Lalwani

#66. When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.

Jan Spiller

#67. It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it.
[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.]

Don Henley

#68. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!

Auliq Ice

#69. Not everything worth learning is summarized in book. Sometimes you've got to rely on instincts.

Samanthe Beck

#70. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#71. In the School of Life events, situations, and the people you have attracted to be part of your personal experiences are synchronized perfectly in order to teach you the lessons that need to be learned. They show you exactly what is needed to be successful in your Life.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#72. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#73. Young hearts too often have tunnel vision.

K.J. Farnham

#74. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.

Nikki Rowe

#75. There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.

H.M. Ward

#76. If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the dark. I know now that the most fearful thing about the dark is that we may find Nothing in it.

Howard Spring

#77. Learn to love and broke man to marry a good man.

Amen Muffler

#78. And you left your mark on me ...
With the destruction of us, finally, we became no one.

Nadege Richards

#79. We are always learning; we just have different teachers.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#80. Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Thomas Carlyle

#81. When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.

David W. Earle

#82. I live by four words and I have it tattooed on my arms as well. It just says, 'Live, learn, love life'. So you live your life to the best way you can. Every situation is a learning one so take those lessons, learn from it and love your life.

Chris Johnson

#83. The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#84. I love the paradise of being between the pages of a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#85. Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

Jeannette Walls

#86. Life's lessons aren't always new. Often they're the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#87. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#88. Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#89. For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!

Kemi Sogunle

#90. so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#91. We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#92. Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Taylor Mali

#93. One of life's greatest lessons is learning from our own mistakes.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#94. Life is here to teach us, so be a good student. Mistakes are the only way we learn.

Dannika Dark

#95. Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them ... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others.

Steve Maraboli

#96. Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.

Roman Payne

#97. If you stop learning, you soon forget what you already know.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#98. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Benjamin Franklin

#99. I always find heroes who are just like me,
I forget they're only human, and like me, broken

Terrence Alonzo Craft

#100. Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

David Brooks