#lesson

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

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. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#growing-up #learning #life-lessons #change

It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was. Then I invented someone and became her. Then I began to like what I invented. And finally I was what I was again..."Anna Quindlen ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#life-lessons #age

To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. ↗

— Jocelyn Soriano

#broken #broken-heart #broken-hearted #broken-hearted-quotes #dating

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#leaving-home #life-lessons #dreams

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#countries #draw #her #history #lessons

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons. ↗

— Adam Jones

#dabbled #guitar #i #lessons #never

Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I bets you see her good. ↗

— Nancy Rawles

#inspirational #life-lessons #love #slavery #inspirational

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician. ↗

— Norah Jones

#course #film #i #i love #lessons

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#become #beyond #conquer #crucial #define