#lesson

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final destination is bound to end in disaster.When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do,it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory, you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way. ↗

— Robert Pirsig

#art

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#enjoy #funny #funny way #good #lesson

Sometimes you need to look at life from a different perspective. ↗

— Inas Chahboun

#life

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us. ↗

— Charlie Gonzalez

#address #before #believe #come #effectively

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#classical #guitar #guitar lessons #holland #i

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

Be weary of the unknown inside of every human being, but do not fear it, embrace it. ↗

— K.K. Cook

#lesson #life #life

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment. ↗

— Allen Klein

#filled #here #learn #lesson #our

I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life-lessons #success #age