#lessons

I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii, or sweating on the elliptical in Boesel's Green Microgym--I asked myself, "Where is the calculus in this experience? ↗

— Jennifer Ouellette

#life-lessons #mathematics #experience

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices #choices-and-consequences #conclusions #consequences #decisions

One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time. ↗

— Andrew Levkoff

#life-experience #life-lessons #experience

My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control. ↗

— Benjamin Wood

#life-lessons #superstition #faith

You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day. ↗

— Tere Michaels

#life-lessons #faith

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it. ↗

— Elizabeth Enright

#fragilty #life-lessons #overdoing #simplicity #family

Look closely into the eyes of those around you, it is always you looking right back, admiring, observing, and trying to tell you that We are One ↗

— Martin Suarez

#family #life-lessons #sisters #unity #we-are-one

Look at All of them.they always feel that school is like a family. No one is upper or lower class except for few people who never really understood themselves". ↗

— Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#family

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control ↗

— Denzel Washington

#forgiveness

You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning. ↗

— Ally Carter

#humor #life-lessons #friendship