#lessons

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#engages #groundwork #heart #lessons #most

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#ballet #body #control #dance #deal

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#artist #begging #beside #complete #day

I was born into Bolivar's labyrinth, so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #life-lessons #dreams

To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#peace #life

We appreciate most that which we have lived without. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#life

Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#reality #experience

Sometimes life brings you the most unexpected experiences, where you learn more than you ever wanted to. ↗

— Emily Gabriela Vira

#life-lessons #experience

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fear #innocence #life-lessons #life-loss #questioning

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure ↗

— David Brooks

#life