#lesson

Without this flock, I would be worthless. Without the people in this flock, I'd be empty. Without the people who started this flock, I'd be dead. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#flocks #life-lessons #love #family

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought. ↗

— Connie Brockway

#hope #life #life-lessons #love #strength

one word can be as bad as 100 gunshots. ↗

— Anaja Polk

#life-lessons #humor

Imagine that. You just can't let your entire life go by worrying about your damned thighs. You'd never find happiness. ↗

— Sarah Gilbert

#life-lessons #love #humor

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned ↗

— Alicia Keys

#lessonlearned #love #love

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#love

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real -- it is a passing will o’ the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts ↗

— Nigel Hey

#life-lessons #mind #philosophy #psychology #reality

Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard. ↗

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

#love #life

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#forgiveness #growing-up #life-lessons #age

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. ↗

— Chad Harbach

#adulthood #consequences-life-lessons #life #meaninglessness #art