Quotes on “life-lessons”

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.

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.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

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.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.

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.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.