Life Teaches Quotes

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

The experiences of life teach truth.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see, the words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how it lifts us up and brings us down... the wonder of life.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

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

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire.

The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us to live.

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

Adversity in life teaches you.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do