#lessons

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#been #better #bit #case #early

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization. ↗

— W.A.R. Gibb

#atheist #christian #civilization #complete #earth

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

I might say that we have paid for freedom. But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind of course we have on moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#freedom

I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#life-lessons #madness #experience

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#grief-inspirational #heartbreak #life #life-lessons #love

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#inspirational #life-lessons #regret #sadness #inspirational

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. ↗

— Rumi

#life-lessons #purpose #inspirational

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#lessons #life #trials #trouble #inspirational