100+ Life Lessons Learned the Hard Way (Must Read!)

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

It's a dangerous thing when you have love without faith and trust... No one wants to feel unsure when they give their heart away.

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.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

Give out what you most want to come back.

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.