#lesson

Nature is subtle and complex. ↗

— Marlene Van Niekerk

#nature #nature

Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils. ↗

— John Granger

#harry-potter #lessons #morals #death

The chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. A daredevil jump off this ledge will end your life. It has happened before and it will happen again. You’ve been warned. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#bravery #chasm #death #fall #fine-line

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? ↗

— J.E. Seanachaí

#life-lesson #philosophy #wisdom #writing #life

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

#life #reality #reasoning #life

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made. ↗

— Alice Bag

#life-lessons #mistakes #philosophy #beauty

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#guess #had #i #i think #lessons

Every fiction has its base in fact. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#inspirational #life-lesson #inspirational

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#driving #had #i #lessons #new

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group. ↗

— James Cameron

#efforts #enterprise #ever #exactly #going