#lesson

Love thy neighbor yes, but love thyself first. ↗

— Solange nicole

#life-lessons #self-improvement #self-love #solange #life

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets. ↗

— Byrd Baggett

#honesty #life-lessons #morals #team-work #values

No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair. ↗

— D. Byron Patterson

#life-lesson #wisdom #life

How long had it had been since she'd thought back on the evenings around the fire, number games at the kitchen table, or listening to her father sing? Too long. Yes, there had been bad times. And she had tallied them like figures in a column, not remembering to factor in the good. She had doctored the books. ↗

— Julie Klassen

#life

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#cruel-lesson #direction #past #path #turning-back-the-pages

It took turns that people couldn’t foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson. ↗

— Alice Barrett

#day #every #every single day #found #grateful

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life. ↗

— Marg Helgenberger

#could #fair #friends #him #his

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#because #bridge #cross #down #find

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#basic #causing #crises #damage #economy