#lessons

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#crossroads #hope #inspiration #lessons #life

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life-lessons #inspirational

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

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#life-lessons #mitch-albom #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

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better. ↗

— Chetan Bhagat

#life-lessons #forgiveness

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it ↗

— Billy Joel

#lessons #life #music #poetry #inspirational

Nothing is fair. Life is shit and it doesn't get any better. But there are things in life that will make it bearable; tolerable. There are things that will make all of the BS worth it. You've just gotta open yourself up to it. It's not always easy, and the scars will never go away...but maybe, just maybe, you can learn to live with them. ↗

— Crystal D. Budy

#life-lessons #inspirational