Lesson Quotes

“It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.”
― Dan Stevens

“My biggest regret is what I didn’t say… (Jake)”
― Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say

“A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade

“When you feel life at crossroads,
you need higher perspective view.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“...My dad, may he rest in
peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never ask a guy what you do for a living.

He said "If you think about it, when you ask a guy, what do you do you do for a living," you’re saying "how may I gauge the rest of your utterances." are you smarter than I am? Are you richer than I am, poorer than I am?"

So you ask a guy what do you do for a living, it’s the same thing as
asking a guy, let me know what your politics are before I listen to you so
I know whether or not you’re part of my herd, in which case I can nod
knowingly, or part of the other herd, in which case I can wish you dead.”
― David Mamet

“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow

“You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel
Meeting people of different kinds,
Remember that being handicapped
Is only a state of mind”
― Stephen Cosgrove, Fanny

“Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“The whole point of life is to learn love. Life is the school, love is the lesson and we are all here to teach each other.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“The rabbits though and thought. "If we're normal and Leo is normal, then normal is whatever you are!”
― Stephen Cosgrove, Leo the Lop

“Suffering is a part of real life lesson.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to be the better me by forgetting my past.
Master of Stupidity: If you just forget it, how would you measure you're better?”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Short is short
and Tall is Tall
You are what you are
That is All!”
― Stephen Cosgrove, Memily

“Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.”
― Sandy Blair, A Man In A Kilt

“Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don't. If somebody tries to define it, there will be many agreements and disagreements. Especially since nowadays marriages don't even last long anymore which encourages many to stay single. Faith and understanding in relationships is what many lack because it seems we've forgotten nothing and no one is perfect.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable

“You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade

“A friend cannot be owned
That is plain to see
Friendships must be shared,
Just like our friend, Ruby”
― Stephen Cosgrove, Rhubarb

“Tear down your border
of thicket and vine
creating a free world,
yours and mine.”
― Stephen Cosgrove, Mumkin

“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive
”
― Steve Aylett

“There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,
when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“But I guess that’s the thing about the past. You can’t change it. You can’t fix it. You can only understand it. And if you’re lucky, make sure you don’t make those mistakes again.”
― Tracy Wolff, Court

“It's so nice to learn how
people react to my words.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits

“And much like a catapult, my dear, the lower you begin in life, the higher you can eventually fly. All it requires is the right person to, shall we say, effect the launch.”

-Miss Endicott.”
― Julie Anne Long, How the Marquess Was Won

“Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson.
He warns me that money is not the most important thing, contrary to the popular view on campus.
He tells me I need to be "fully human."
He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for "connectedness" with the society around me.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson