50+ Life Lessons Quotes
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Life is a series of lessons - each one learned through some sort of trial and error. Through our mistakes, we learn what works and what doesn't. Through our mistakes, we learn what to do and what not to do the next time around.
Below you’ll find a curated collection of the best wise, inspirational, and humorous life lessons quotes and sayings.
(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.
...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.
Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.
Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.
You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
The people you are closest to tend to be able to hurt you the most - that is why heartbreak is so hard to deal with, why death is so painful, and why fights can destroy things that matter.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there
You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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.
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
Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me? Aunty Ifeka said. Your life belongs to you and you alone.
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.
Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
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
Complex question can only be solved by patience.
Live the moment. Cherish the present. Anticipate the future. Frame the yesteryear
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.
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.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.
... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.
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